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ever Circumstance, that "unspiritual god" of Byron, took it into his head to put Wordsworth's theory of "how divine a thing a woman may be made," into practice, it was in the case of Beatrice de los Zoridos. Her early childhood had been passed among the wild mountains of her native province—whither Don Henriquez had conveyed his family: one attack had been beaten off from his luxurious home in the valley; that cost him dear enough.—another might be fatal. Besides, the security of the mountains to those he loved most would send him