The works of Lord Byron Author:Baron George Gordon Byron Byron Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the priests won't let lovers live openly together, unless the husband sanctions it,) and making the most exquisite moral reflections,—but to no purpose. She says... more », " I will " stay with him, if he will let you remain with me. It is " hard that I should be the only woman in Romagna who " is not to have her Amico; but, if not, I will not live with " him; and as for the consequences, love, etc., etc., etc." —you know how females reason on such occasions. He says he has let it go on till he can do so no longer. But he wants her to stay, and dismiss me; for he doesn't like to pay back her dowry and to make an alimony. Her relations are rather for the separation, as they detest him,—indeed, so does every body. The populace and the women are, as usual, all for those who are in the wrong, viz. the lady and her lover. I should have retreated, but honour, and an erysipelas which has attacked her, prevent me,—to say nothing of love, for I love her most entirely, though not enough to persuade her to sacrifice every thing to a frenzy. " I see how it " will end; she will be the sixteenth Mrs. Shuffleton." l My paper is finished, and so must this letter. Yours ever, P.S.—I regret that you have not completed the Italian Fudges.2 Pray, how come you to be still in Paris? Murray has four or five things of mine in hand—the new Don Juan, which his back-shop synod don't admire;—al820.] GOETHE ON MANFRED. 33 1. In John Hull, or the Englishman's Fireside, by George Colman the Younger (act ii. sc. 2), the Honourable Tom Shuffleton says, " Fine blue eyes, faith, and very like my Fanny's. Yes, I "see how it will end ;—she'll be the fifteenth Mrs. Shuffleton." 2. Moore at one time proposed to continue his Fudge Family in Paris (1818), by a series of letters in verse from the Fudge family in I...« less