Her manner, I have no hesitation to say, is cool at the first interview, but is modestly, and not insolently, cool: she contracted it, I believe, from being exposed by her beauty and large fortune, in youth, to numbers of suitors, whom she could not have otherwise kept at a distance.

But this manner could have had no influence with Lord Byron; for it vanishes on nearer acquaintance, and has no origin in coldness.

All her friends like her frankness the better for being preceded by this reserve.

This manner, however, though not the slightest apology for Lord Byron, has been inimical to Lady Byron in her misfortunes.

It endears her to her friends; but it piques the indifferent.