I had understood that at one time this daughter escaped from her friends to the Continent, and that Lady Byron assisted in efforts to recover her.

Of Lady Byron's kindness both to Mrs.Leigh and the child, I had before heard from Mrs .-- --, who gave me my first information.
It is also strongly impressed on my mind, that Lady Byron, in answer to some question of mine as to whether there was ever any meeting between Lord Byron and his sister after he left England, answered, that she had insisted upon it, or made it a condition, that Mrs.Leigh should not go abroad to him.
When the conversation as to events was over, as I stood musing, I said, 'Have you no evidence that he repented ?' and alluded to the mystery of his death, and the message be endeavoured to utter.
She answered quickly, and with great decision, that whatever might have been his meaning at that hour, she felt sure he had finally repented; and added with great earnestness, 'I do not believe that any child of the heavenly Father is ever left to eternal sin.' I said that such a hope was most delightful to my feelings, but that I had always regarded the indulgence of it as a dangerous one.
Her look, voice, and manner, at that moment, are indelibly fixed in my mind.

She looked at me so sadly, so firmly, and said,-- 'Danger, Mrs.Stowe! What danger can come from indulging that hope, like the danger that comes from not having it ?' I said in my turn, 'What danger comes from not having it ?' 'The danger of losing all faith in God,' she said, 'all hope for others, all strength to try and save them.

I once knew a lady,' she added, 'who was in a state of scepticism and despair from belief in that doctrine.

I think I saved her by giving her my faith.' I was silent; and she continued: 'Lord Byron believed in eternal punishment fully: for though he reasoned against Christianity as it is commonly received, he could not reason himself out of it; and I think it made him desperate.