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no had agreed on q meeting as friends, proposed
that it should be q. his (Mr. Roger's) house, and
desired Moore to invite Byron to meet him at din
ner there. This invitation was accepted in the
most gracious manner by Byron. 1t was intended
at first that the party should be confined to the
trio but Campbell happened to call on Mr.. Rog-
.ers in the course Of the morning, aud was invited
to jlin them. This was in the first week of No
7ember, 1911 and at that time Byron was not
personally known to Rogers, Moore or Campbell !
Mr.. Rogers introduced himself to Lord Byron,
and presented the other two rs they arrived. Mr.,
Rogers-whose dinners were always perfect-bad
taken pains to have a particularly nice one that
day. He soon found, however, somewhat to bis
cousternation, that there was nothing on th9 table
which Lord Byron could eat or drink. He was at
that time in one of tho frequent fits Of abstinence
which he practised to check q tendency to grow
stout. After refusing every thing on the table, he
asked for hard biscuit and soda water, neither of
which happened to be inthe house. The soda wa
ter was sent for and procured, but the biscuit was
not to be had in the neighborhood. Lord Byron
then called for the potatoes, filed his plate with
them, and, pouring the contents of the vinegar
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ner and conversation on this occasion did not APP
pear to have pleased Mr.. Rogers so much as they
did Mr.. Moore. Whenever l saw Lord Byron, his
department and conversation we're those of q we'll
bred, intelligent man Of the world, wholly free
from affectation aud eccentricity.
ut has been a question whether Lord Byron
was lame 10 one foot or both. My own impress
sion, when l saw him, was that the deformity ex-
tended equally to both feet and such | under
stand Mr.. T%relawnoy, speaking from actual inspec-
after his death, declares to have been the case. 1t
was concealed from the eye by very long and loose
~trowsers, but caused him to walk with a slight Jerk
at the hip. Mr.. Rogers and Lord Byron were
leaving a parry together, shortly after his return
from the Continent. A linkman aceosted Lord
Byron by name. Mr.. Rogers heedlessly said,
You see everybody knows you already" Lord
Byron rejoined, with a bitter expression, Eyes, |
am deformed." This feeling seems to have been
habitually present to his mind, if we can trust his
biographers but on nc occasion when l saw him
did his countenance wear the expression of gloom
or care.
"Three years and a half after I saw him in Lon
don, | had an opportunity Of renewing nv &C.
quaintnnco with Lord Bryon at Venice, where |
saw him a few times in the autumn of 1918. Not
withstanGing the events which had occurred since
| saw him in London, there was no change 10 his
general appearance and manner. Our conversation
was again very much on Greece, which l was to
visit the next spring, and for which he furnish
ed me additional letters. lie now spoke with some
confidence of taking up his abode there, though
the revolution which caused him to do so had not
yet broken out. lie dwelt at some length on the
state Of society in Italy, particularly in Venice, and
especially on the circle at the Countess Albrizzi's,
which Lord Bryon attended evrey evening for two
years, to which l had the good fortune to be intro
doced by Ugo Foscolo. He spoke also with a good
deal of interest OF the Armenian studies which he
carried on for a short time under Father Pascal
Anger, ofthe Armenian Convent at Venice. This
learned and aimable ecclesiastic, whom l had the
pleasure OF knowing, told me that for the short
time that Lord Byron studied with him be made
rapid progress. He translated into English Father
Aucher's Armenio-Italian grammer, and also the
uuauthentio Epistles Of Paul to the Corinthians,
which had never appeared in an English version.
They are found, as translated by Lord Byron, in
the Appendix to Moore's Life"