publish his Lordship's Satire, were the severe attacks it contained upon
Mr. Southey and others of their literary friends.]

* * * * *

"Reddish's Hotel, St. James's Street, London, July 23. 1811.

"My dear Madam,

"I am only detained by Mr. H * * to sign some copyhold papers, and
will give you timely notice of my approach. It is with great
reluctance I remain in town. I shall pay a short visit as we go on
to Lancashire on Rochdale business. I shall attend to your
directions, of course, and am,

"With great respect, yours ever,"

"BYRON.

"P.S.--You will consider Newstead as your house, not mine; and me
only as a visitor."

* * * * *

On his going abroad, she had conceived a sort of superstitious fancy
that she should never see him again; and when he returned, safe and
well, and wrote to inform her that he should soon see her at Newstead,
she said to her waiting-woman, "If I should be dead before Byron comes
down, what a strange thing it would be!"--and so, in fact, it happened.
At the end of July, her illness took a new and fatal turn; and, so sadly