CHAPTER VIII. FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW LOVE 205
Shelley’s Refusal to join in the Resettlement of A and B--His Places of Residence in Two Years and Eight Months--_A Refutation of Deism_--Mr. Kegan Paul’s Inaccuracies--Discord between Shelley and Harriett--Their Remarriage--Miss Westbrook’s Withdrawal--Shelley’s Desertion of Harriett--The Desertion closes in Separation by mutual Agreement--‘Do what other Women do!’--Causes of the Separation--How Shelley’s Evidence touching them should be regarded--Peacock’s Testimony for Harriett--Shelley in Skinner Street--‘The Mask of Scorn’--Mary Godwin _not_ bred up to mate in Free Contract--Old St. Pancras Church--At Mary Wollstonecraft’s Grave--Claire’s Part in the Wooing--Excuses for Mary Godwin--The Elopement from Skinner Street--From London to Dover--From Dover to Calais--A ‘Scene’ at Calais--The Joint Journal--Mrs. Shelley convicted of Tampering with Evidence-- The Six Weeks’ Tour--Shelley begs Harriett to come to him in Switzerland--Byron’s Hunger for Evil Fame--Shelley’s Self-Approbation and Self-Righteousness--Godwin’s Wrath with Shelley--Their subsequent Relations--Shelley’s Renewal of Intercourse with Harriett--Tiffs and Disagreements between Claire and Mary--Claire’s Incapacity for Friendship--She wants more than Friendship from Shelley.
Pecuniary Difficulties and Resources--Choice of a Profession-- Shelley walking a Hospital--Dropt by Acquaintances--Birth of Mary Godwin’s first Child--Sir Bysshe Shelley’s Death-- Differences and Tiffs between Mary and Claire--Characteristics of the Sisters--Trip to South Devon--At Work on _Alastor_-- Publication of the Poem--_Essay on Christianity_--Life at Bishopgate--Shelley’s Idolatry of Byron--Birth of Mary Godwin’s first-born Son--Claire and Byron--Second Trip to Switzerland--Shelley’s Pretext for leaving England--Strange Scene between Shelley and Peacock--Semi-Delusions--Another Hallucination.
Shelley’s Arrival at Geneva--Byron and Polidori--At the Sécheron Hotel--Union of the two Parties--Tattle of the Coteries--The Genevese Scandal--Its Fruit in _Manfred_ and _Cain_--Its Fruit in _Laon and Cythna_--The Shelleys’ Return to England--Their Stay at Bath--Their Choice of a House at Great Marlow--Fanny Imlay’s Suicide--Her pitiable Story-- Harriett’s Suicide--Review of Shelley’s Treatment of her--His Responsibility for her Depravation and Ruin--Witnesses to Character and Conduct--Shelley’s Grief for Harriett--His wild Speech about her--His Marriage with Mary Godwin--Birth of Allegra.