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abandoned for him husband, home, and good name 

 if there be such a thing as female reputation in 

 Italy ; and yet he is represented as speaking of 

 her in a most unfeeling manner to one of his 

 " friends," just after she had passed them on a 

 ride : "I loved her for three weeks, what a red- 

 headed thing it is !" This " red-headed thing," at 

 the same time, living with him as a wife ! Believe 

 this of Byron who likes, not I. It is more likely 

 that the reporter " lies under a mistake," as Byron 

 himself writes, than that the author of " Childe 

 Harold " was so heartless a being. 



SIMPSON. I am inclined to think that these 

 anecdotes, which give so unfavourable an account 

 of Byron, have prejudiced you against the general 

 merits of the book as a work on angling. 



FISHER. Work on angling ! though you say 

 you have looked it through, you cannot have read 

 it, or you would never allude to it as a work on 

 angling. Why, there is nothing in it but what 

 Rammohun Roy, who never caught a trout in hio 

 life, might have written with the aid of a sixpenny 

 "Art of Angling." So far from entertaining any 

 prejudice against the book, I read on past the 

 scandalous anecdotes about Byron, till I was fairly 

 brought up by a " Poem" at the end, about Julian 

 and Gizele, the Pindarries, Zalim, Spahees, Beils 

 Ghebres, Goorkhas, Bringarries, etc., etc. I then 

 fairly saw land. The "thing" had been "done" 

 expressly for the circulating libraries, with tho 



