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his last without a struggle. I never saw "a countenance so calm. His adjutant "followed the corpse into the house. I "remember his lamentation over him:"Povero diavolo! non aveva fatto male, "anchè ad un cane.'

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"I am sorry," said he, "not to have "a copy of my Memoirs to shew you; "I gave them to Moore, or rather to "Moore's little boy, at Venice. I re"member saying, 'Here are 2000l. for

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you, my young friend.' I made one "reservation in the gift,-that they were "not to be published till after my death.

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"I have not the least objection to

their being circulated; in fact they have "been read by some of mine, and several

"of Moore's friends and acquaintances ;

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among others, they were lent to Lady "Burghersh. On returning the MS. her

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Ladyship told Moore that she had tran

scribed the whole work. This was un

peu fort, and he suggested the propriety "of her destroying the copy. She did.

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so, by putting it into the fire in his

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Douglas Kinnaird has been recommend"ing me to resume possession of the MS.,

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thinking to frighten me by saying that

a spurious or a real copy, surreptitiously "obtained, may go forth to the world. "I am quite indifferent about the world

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knowing all that they contain. There

"are very few licentious adventures of

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my own, or scandalous anecdotes that

"will affect others, in the book. It is from my earliest recollections,

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taken up

"almost from childhood,-very incohe

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rent, written in a very loose and familiar style. The second part will prove

a good lesson to young men; for it "treats of the irregular life I led at one period, and the fatal consequences of

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dissipation. There are few parts that may not, and none that will not, be "read by women."

Another time he said:

"A very full account of my marriage "and separation is contained in my Me"moirs. After they were completed, I "wrote to Lady Byron, proposing to send "them for her inspection, in order that

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any mistatements or inaccuracy (if any

"such existed, which I was not aware of,)

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"her answer she declined the offer, with"out assigning any reason; but desiring,

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if not on her account, for the sake of "her daughter, that they might never

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appear, and finishing with a threat. My

reply was the severest thing I ever wrote, and contained two quotations, one from Shakspeare, and another from "Dante.* I told her that she knew all "I had written was incontrovertible truth, and that she did not wish to sanction'

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the truth. I ended by saying, that she

'might depend on their being published. "It was not till after this correspondence "that I made Moore the depositary of "the MS.

"The first time of my seeing Miss

* I could not retain them.

"Millbank was at Lady

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was a fatal day; and I remember that "in going upstairs I stumbled, and re"marked to Moore, who accompanied me, "that it was a bad omen. I ought to "have taken the warning. On entering "the room I observed a young lady, more

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simply dressed than the rest of the as

sembly, sitting alone upon a sofa. I "took her for a humble companion, and "asked if I was right in my conjecture? "She is a great heiress,' said he in a whisper that became lower as he pro"ceeded; 'you had better marry her,

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"There was something piquant, and "what we term pretty, in Miss Millbank. "Her features were small and feminine, "though not regular. She had the fairest

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