Whether the judgment of the sufferer was right or mistaken was nobody's business but her own: this was the first point.

Next, a voluntary poverty could never be pitied by anybody: that was the second.

But it was painful to others to think of the mortification to benevolent feelings which attends poverty; and there could be no objection to arresting that pain.

Therefore she, Lady Byron, had lodged in a neighbouring bank the sum of one hundred pounds, to be used for benevolent purposes; and, in order to preclude all outside speculation, she had made the money payable to the order of the intermediate person, so that the sufferer's name need not appear at all.
'Five and thirty years of unremitting secret bounty like this must make up a great amount of human happiness; but this was only one of a wide variety of methods of doing good.

It was the unconcealable magnitude of her beneficence, and its wise quality, which made her a second time the theme of English conversation in all honest households within the four seas.