[A Publisher and His Friends by Samuel Smiles]@TWC D-Link bookA Publisher and His Friends CHAPTER XIV 6/29
But should you not see Rogers? It is evident that Lord Byron is a little awkward about this matter, and his officious friends have got him into a most _unlordly_ scrape, from which they can only relieve him by treading back their steps.
The more I consider their conduct, the more I am astonished at their impudence.
A downright robbery is honourable to it.
If you see Rogers, do not be shy to speak: he trembles at report, and here is an evil one for him." In the end Lord Byron was compelled by the increasing pressure of his debts to accept the sum offered by Murray and use it for his own purposes. It is not necessary here to touch upon the circumstances of Lord Byron's separation from his wife; suffice it to say that early in 1816 he determined to leave England, and resolved, as he had before contemplated doing, to sell off his books and furniture.
He committed the arrangements to Mr.Murray, through Mr.Hanson, his solicitor, in Bloomsbury Square.
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