Excerpt from The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 of 17: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life My health is nowmuch as usual. Mr. Hill is, i believe, occupied with his diplomacy. I shall give himyourmesaagewhenlseehimagain. Myname, i see in thepapers, has been dragged into the unhappy Portsmouth business, of which all that I know is very succinct. Mr. H is my solicitor. I found him so when I was ten years old - at my uncle's death - and he was continued in the management of my legal business. He asked me, by a civil epistle, as an old acquaintance of his family, to be present at the marriage of Miss H I went very reluctantly, one misty morning (for I had been up at two balls all night), to witness the ceremony, which I could not very well refuse without affronting a man who had never offended me. I saw nothing particular in the marriage. Of course I could not know the preliminaries, except from what he said, not having been present at the wooing, nor utter it, for I walked home, and they went into the country as soon as they had promised and vowed. Out of this simple fact I hear the Debats de Paris has quoted Miss H. As autrefois tres liee avec le 06 lebre, ' &c. &c. I am obliged to him for the celebrity, but beg leave to decline the liaison, which is quite untrue; my liaison was with the thther, in the un sentimental shape of long lawyers' bills, through the medium ofwhich I have had to pay him ten or twelve thousand pounds within these few years. She was not pretty, and I suspect that the indefatigable Mr. A was (like all her people) more attracted by her title than her charms. I regret very much that I was present at the prologue to the happy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.