Lord Byron had demoralised the moral sense of England, and he had done it in a great degree by the sympathy excited by falsehood.

This had been pleaded in extenuation of all his crimes and vices, and led to a lowering of the standard of morals in the literary world.

Now it was proposed to print cheap editions of his works, and sell them among the common people, and interest them in him by the circulation of this same story.
She then said in effect, that she believed in retribution and suffering in the future life, and that the consequences of sins here follow us there; and it was strongly impressed upon her mind that Lord Byron must suffer in looking on the evil consequences of what he had done in this life, and in seeing the further extension of that evil.
'It has sometimes strongly appeared to me,' she said, 'that he cannot be at peace until this injustice has been righted.

Such is the strong feeling that I have when I think of going where he is.' These things, she said, had led her to inquire whether it might not be her duty to make a full and clear disclosure before she left the world.
Of course, I did not listen to this story as one who was investigating its worth.

I received it as truth.