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A Day with Lord Byron - May Clarissa Gillington
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Title: A Day with Lord Byron
Author: May Clarissa Gillington
Release Date: June 27, 2010 [EBook #32990]
Language: English
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A DAY WITH LORD BYRON
by
M.C.
GILLINGTON
LONDON
HODDER & STOUGHTON
In the same Series.
A DAY WITH BYRON.
ne February afternoon in the year 1822, about two o'clock,—for this is the hour at which his day begins,—the most notorious personality of his century
arouses himself, in the Palazzo Lanfranchi at Pisa. George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, languidly arises and dresses, with the assistance of his devoted valet Fletcher. Invariably he awakes in very low spirits, in actual despair and despondency,
he has termed it: this is in part constitutional, and partly, no doubt, a reaction after the feverish brain-work of the previous night. It is, at any rate, in unutterable melancholy and ennui that he surveys in the mirror that slight and graceful form, which had been idolised by London drawing-rooms, and that pale, scornful, beautiful face, like a spirit, good or evil,
which the enthusiastic Walter Scott has termed a thing to dream of. He notes the grey streaks already visible among his dark brown locks, and mutters his own lines miserably to himself,—