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that the book throughout is full of things that were not, and most resplendently deficient quoad the things that were.' Yet it is on Medwin's 'Conversations' alone that many of the magazine assertions in regard to Lady Byron are founded.
It is on that authority that Lady Byron is accused of breaking open her husband's writing-desk in his absence, and sending the letters she found there to the husband of a lady compromised by them; and likewise that Lord Byron is declared to have paid back his wife's ten-thousand-pound wedding portion, and doubled it.

Moore makes no such statements; and his remarks about Lord Byron's use of his wife's money are unmistakable evidence to the contrary.