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Astarte: a Fragment of Truth
Lady Byron to Augusta Leigh, 2 October [1816]
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Introduction
Preface
Contents
I. Byron Characteristics
II. Three Stages of Lord Byron’s Life
III. Manfred
IV. Correspondence of Augusta Byron
V. Anne Isabella Byron
VI. Lady Byron’s Policy of Silence
VII. Informers and Defamers
VIII. “When We Dead Awake”
IX. Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh (I)
X. Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh (II)
XI. Byron and Augusta
Notes by the Editor
Appendix
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“Oct. 2. . . . All that is said of CL appears to me nothing but the effect of apprehension—and the design to blacken me by association with her (which will however make me more cautious) is another effect of fear in order to invalidate any future disclosure which he may suspect or know it is in my power to make so as to convince others—the temper of the whole letter is decidedly that of a conscience enraged by anticipating judgment here as well as hereafter—and which by way of precaution against the former would persecute un-

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relentingly all whom he has made to know him—From this view his adoption (if not invention) of my being a Picklock is easily explained—for such a suspicion of my means of information would entirely discredit my testimony—But there also seems another disposition in parts of the letter—to alarm and annoy you notwithstanding the professed feelings of consideration and affection—This is evident in the hint about Whitbread—(the old threat of Suicide)—and I think also in this very suggestion of my having opened his papers—letters of yours probably”. . .

“To return once more to CL—I never wrote a single line to her from the time of my separation till that note of which you know merely declining her visit—so that the story of a correspondence is utterly false.” . . .