No woman could have a greater variety of stories to tell; and no woman ever was so persecuted and pursued and harassed, both by public literature and private friendship, to say something.

She had plenty of causes for a separation, without the fatal and final one.

In her conversations with Lady Anne Barnard, for example, she gives reasons enough for a separation, though none of them are the chief one.

It is not different stories, but contradictory stories, that must be relied on to disprove the credibility of a witness.

The 'Quarterly' has certainly told a great number of different stories,--stories which may prove as irreconcilable with each other as any attributed to Lady Byron; but its denial of all weight to her testimony is simply begging the whole question under consideration.
A man gives testimony about the causes of a railroad accident, being the only eye-witness.
The opposing counsel begs, whatever else you do, you will not admit that man's testimony.