myself: I shall certainly be most happy again to see you,
notwithstanding my _wise_ and _Good_ mother (who is at this minute
thundering against Somebody or other below in the Dining Room), has
interdicted my visiting at his _Lordship's_ house, with the threat of
her malediction, in case of disobedience, as she says he has behaved
very ill to her; the truth of this I much doubt, nor should the orders
of all the mothers (especially such mothers) in the world, prevent me
from seeing my Beloved Sister after so long an Absence. I beg you will
forgive this _well written epistle_, for I write in a great Hurry,
and, believe me, with the greatest impatience again to behold you,
your

Attached Brother and [Friend,

BYRON].

P.S.--By the bye Lady G. ought not to complain of your writing a
_decent_ long letter to me, since I remember your _11 Pages_ to her,
at which I did not make the least complaint, but submitted like a
_meek Lamb_ to the innovation of my privileges, for nobody _ought_ to
have had so long an epistle but my _most excellent Self_.



[Footnote 1: On St. George's Day, April 23, 1805, seven Knights were
installed at Windsor as Knights of the Garter, each in turn being
invested with the surcoat, girdle, and sword. The new Knights were the
Dukes of Rutland and Beaufort; the Marquis of Abercorn; the Earls of
Chesterfield, Pembroke, and Winchilsea; and, by proxy, the Earl of
Hardwicke.