The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-03-22


Harness" we find these anecdotes Of Lord
Byron: AT time when Coleridge was in
great embarrassment, Rogers when call
ing on Byron, Glanced to mention il. He
Immediately went 10 his writingdcsk,
and brought hack check for hundred
pounds, and insisted on its being for
warded to Coleridge. II did not like
taking it, said Rogers, who told me the
story, 'for knew he was in want Of it
himself His servants he treated with
gentle consideration for their feelings
which have seldom witnessed in any
other, and they were devoted to him. AT
Newstead there was an old man who had
been butler for his mother; and have
seen Byron, as the old man waited behind
his chair at dinner, pour out glass of
wine and pass it 10 him when he thought
we were too mach engaged in conversa-
ton to observe what he was doing. The
transaction was thing of custom; and
both parties seemed to fatter themselves
that it was clandestinly effected. A hid
eous old woman, who had been brought
in to nurse him when he was unwell at
one of his lodgings, and whom few would
care to retain about them longer than
their services were required, was carried
with him, in improved attire, to his
chambers in the Albany, and was seen,
after his marriage, in black silk, at his
house in Piccadily. She had done him
a service, and he could not forget it. OF
his attachment to his friends, no one can
read "Moore's Life" and entertain adoubt.
He required a great deal from them
not more, perhaps, than he from the
abundance of his life, freely and fully
gave, but more than they had to give in
return. The ardor of his nature must
have been in normal state of disappoint-
ment. He imagined higher qualities in
them than they possessed, and must very
often have found his expectations sadly
balked by the dullness of talk, the per-
versity of taste, or want of enthusiasm
which he encountered on a better, or
rather longer, acquaintance. But not.
withstanding. ! have never yet heard any
body complain that Byron had once ap-
nea-ed to entertain a regard for him, and
had afterwarr c.apriously cast him off.
Years after they. ...sd ies ,cr the last
time, Lady Byron went with Mrs. Jane.
son to see Thorvaldson's statue Of her
husband, which was at Sir Richard West.
macott's studio. After looking at it in
silence for few moments, the tears came
into her eyes, and she said to her com.
panion, at is very beautiful, but not SO
beautiful as my dear Byron" However
interrupted by changes of caprice or irri-
liability, the general course of her hus-
bands conduct must have been gentle and
tender, or it never would, after so long a
cessation of intercourse, have left such
kindly impressions behind it. have,
indeed, reason to believe that these feel
ingsof affectionate remembrance fingered
in the heart of Lady Byron to the last.
Not fortnight before her death dincd
in company with an old lady who was at
the time on visit to her. On this lady's
returning home, and mentioning whom
she had met, Lady Byron evinced great
curiosity to learn what subjects we had
talked about, and what heard of them,
"because had been such friend of her
husbands" This instance offond remem-
brance, after an interval of more than
forty years, in woman of no very sensi-
tive nature-a woman of more intellect
than feeling-conveys to my mind no
slight argument in defense of Byron's
conduct as husband.-Harper's Weekly.