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You don't seem to value this as you ought," said Byron with one of his sardonic smiles, seeing I looked, as I really felt, surprised at his avowed insincerity.

"I feel the same pleasure in anticipating the rage and mortification of my soi-disant friends at the discovery of my real sentiments of them, that a miser may be supposed to feel while making a will that will disappoint all the expectants that have been toadying him for years.

Then how amusing it will be to compare my posthumous with my previously given opinions, the one throwing ridicule on the other!"' It is asserted, in a note to 'The Noctes,' that Byron, besides his Autobiography, prepared a voluminous dictionary of all his friends and acquaintances, in which brief notes of their persons and character were given, with his opinion of them.

It was not considered that the publication of this would add to the noble lord's popularity; and it has never appeared.
In Hunt's Life of Byron, there is similar testimony.