Contemporary Account of the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron: Also of the Destruction of Lord Byron's Memoirs

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Էջ 222 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Էջ 50 - Byron's mind his avowed and insurmountable aversion to the married state, and the desire and determination he has expressed ever since its commencement to free himself from that bondage, as finding it quite insupportable, though candidly acknowledging that no effort of duty or affection has been wanting on my part.
Էջ 208 - Without entering into the respective claims of Mr. Murray and myself to the property in these Memoirs (a question which, now that they are destroyed, can be but of little moment to any one), it is sufficient to say that, believing the manuscript still to be mine, I placed it at the disposal of Lord Byron's sister, Mrs. Leigh, with the sole reservation of a protest against its total destruction — at least without previous...
Էջ 52 - You know what I have suffered, and would have sacrificed, to avoid this extremity — and the strong proofs of duty and attachment I have given by a persevering endurance of the most trying inflictions. " After seriously and dispassionately reviewing the misery that I have experienced almost without an interval from the day of my marriage, I have finally determined on the measure of a separation, which my father was authorised to communicate to you and to carry into effect. It is unhappily your disposition...
Էջ 50 - AUGUSTA, — You are desired by your brother to ask, if my father has acted with my concurrence in proposing a separation. He has. It cannot be supposed that, in my present distressing situation, I am capable of stating in a detailed manner the reasons which will not only justify this measure, but compel me to take it ; and it never can be my wish to remember unnecessarily [sic] those injuries for which, however deep, I feel no resentment.
Էջ 62 - I5th, must convince you of such an impression on my mind. My absence, if it had not been rendered necessary by other causes, was medically recommended on that ground, as removing an object of irritation. I should have acted inconsistently with my unchanged affection for you, or indeed with the common principles of humanity, by urging my wrongs at that moment.
Էջ 15 - We got here quite well last night, and were ushered into the kitchen instead of drawingroom, by a mistake that might have been agreeable enough to hungry people. ... Of this and other incidents Dad wants to write you a jocose account, and both he and Mam long to have isie.
Էջ 57 - Was not the last that recurred more particularly so ? and had I not — had we not the days before and on the day we parted — every reason to believe that we loved each other ? that we were to meet again ? Were not your letters kind...
Էջ 134 - The matter now to be arbitrated by Sir Samuel Shepherd relates to the Noel property ; for it is hereby expressly understood and agreed that the separation itself, and the mode of fixing the proportion of Lady Byron's present income, are, and are to be, formally agreed upon as above specified, provided always that Sir Samuel Shepherd shall undertake the arbitration.
Էջ 52 - I act on my own conviction, independently, as they do on theirs. ' You know what I have suffered, and would have sacrificed, to avoid this extremity, and the strong proofs of duty and attachment I have given by a persevering endurance of the most trying inflictions. After seriously and dispassionately reviewing the misery that I have experienced, almost without interval, from the day of my marriage, I have finally determined on the measure of a separation, which my father was authorised to communicate...

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