LORD  BYRON  and  his  TIMES
Byron
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In Whig Society 1775-1818
Lady Bessborough to Lady Melbourne, [September? 1812]
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Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
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“Now could you imagine, Dear Ly. M., that I had spoken to the P[rince] of Ld. Byr.—he began about my going to Ireland & then told me the whole history of Caro . . . saying Ld. Mel:
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had been with him very much out of humour complaining that she drove him mad, & we were almost as bad, that Ld. Byr. had bewitch’d the whole family Mothers & daughter & all & that nothing would satisfy us but making a fool of him as well as of ourselves, & insisting on his asking Ld. Byn. to his house. The P. said all this so rapidly & so loudly (?), interrupting himself now & then to exclaim, ‘I never heard of such a thing in my life—taking the Mothers for confidantes! What would you have thought of my going to talk to Ly. Spencer in former times!’—that in spite of the subject & the circle I was near laughing. But do not scold Ld. Mel., for he was so very good naturd & so civil that I was quite delighted with him. I could not get away from Ld. Byr., when once he began talking to me—he was part of the time very pleasant & talking of other things—but he did tell me some things so terrifying & so extraordinary!! To be sure if he does mean to deceive he takes the strangest way of doing it I ever knew—unless a shocking notion the P. has, can be true—but I do think it impossible it is too diabolick.

“God bless you.”