Nothing now seemed wanting to bring the wanderer home to the fold but a kind word from Lady Byron.

But, when the fair countess offered to mediate, the poet only shook his head in tragic despair; 'he had so many times tried in vain; Lady Byron's course had been from the first that of obdurate silence.' Any one who would wish to see a specimen of the skill of the honourable poet in mystification will do well to read a letter to Lady Byron, which Lord Byron, on parting from Lady Blessington, enclosed for her to read just before he went to Greece.

He says,-- 'The letter which I enclose I was prevented from sending by my despair of its doing any good.

I was perfectly sincere when I wrote it, and am so still.

But it is difficult for me to withstand the thousand provocations on that subject which both friends and foes have for seven years been throwing in the way of a man whose feelings were once quick, and whose temper was never patient.' * * * * * 'TO LADY BYRON, CARE OF THE HON.MRS.LEIGH, LONDON.
'PISA, Nov.