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Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
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your host, ensures the safety of the guest; even though an enemy,
his person from that moment becomes sacred.

"There is another additional note sent yesterday--on the Priest in
the Confessional.

"P.S.--I leave this to your discretion; if any body thinks the old
line a good one or the cheese a bad one, don't accept either. But,
in that case, the word _share_ is repeated soon after in the line--

"To share the master's bread and salt;

and must be altered to--

"To break the master's bread and salt.

This is not so well, though--confound it!"

[Footnote 75: This is written on a separate slip of paper enclosed.]

* * * * *

LETTER 132. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Oct. 12. 1813.

"You must look The Giaour again over carefully; there are a few
lapses, particularly in the last page.--'I _know_ 'twas false; she
could not die;' it was, and ought to be--'I _knew_.' Pray observe
this and similar mistakes.
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