In her statement, she says of her parents, 'There is no other near relative to vindicate their memory from insult: I am therefore compelled to break the silence I had hoped always to have observed.' If there was any near relative to vindicate Lady Byron's memory, I had no evidence of the fact; and I considered the utter silence to be strong evidence to the contrary.

In all the storm of obloquy and rebuke that has raged in consequence of my speaking, I have had two unspeakable sources of joy; first, that they could not touch her; and, second, that they could not blind the all-seeing God.

It is worth being in darkness to see the stars.
It has been said that I have drawn on Lady Byron's name greater obloquy than ever before.

I deny the charge.

Nothing fouler has been asserted of her than the charges in the 'Blackwood,' because nothing fouler could be asserted.