As an instance of his tendency to dramatization, of the part his ego plays in the recital of his past exploits and of the tendency to crave sympathy and compassion, a characteristic quite common to these pathological swindlers, the following, his own description of the circumstances which brought about his admission to the Vienna Insane Asylum may be quoted:- While on vacation, I met at Wertersee, which is a fashionable summer resort, a girl with the name L. Adle von D. I had left my tutor behind.
"Studies in Forensic Psychiatry"
Bernard Glueck
From Mr. Rose-Black he could not protect them; and both the ladies amused Elmore with a dramatization of how the Englishman had boldly outwitted them, and trampled all their finessing under foot, by simply walking up to them in the reading-room, and saying, "This is Miss Mayhew, I suppose," and putting himself at once on the footing of an old family friend.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
An enterprising manager-P. T. Barnum, if I remember aright-raked up the Byron story and starred Lola in a dramatization of Lord Byron's poem "Mazeppa."
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune