I would rather represent this as _my_ misfortune than as _his_ guilt; but, surely, that misfortune is not to be made my crime! Such are my feelings; you will judge how to act.
'His allusions to me in "Childe Harold" are cruel and cold, but with such a semblance as to make _me_ appear so, and to attract all sympathy to himself.

It is said in this poem that hatred of him will be taught as a lesson to his child.

I might appeal to all who have ever heard me speak of him, and still more to my own heart, to witness that there has been no moment when I have remembered injury otherwise than affectionately and sorrowfully.
'It is not my duty to give way to hopeless and wholly unrequited affection; but, so long as I live, my chief struggle will probably be not to remember him too kindly.

I do not seek the sympathy of the world, but I wish to be known by those whose opinion is valuable and whose kindness is dear to me.

Among such, my dear Lady Anne, you will ever be remembered by your truly affectionate 'A.