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Chapter 14

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LORD BYRON'S DEALINGS WITH MR. MURRAY--_continued_

Lord Byron's marriage--Letters from Mr. Murray during the honeymoon--Mr. Fazakerly's interview with Bonaparte--Byron's pecuniary embarrassments--Murray's offers of assistance--"Siege of Corinth"--"Parisina"--Byron refuses remuneration--Pressed to give the money to Godwin, Maturin, and Coleridge--Murray's remonstrance --Gifford's opinion of the "Siege of Corinth" and Mr. D'Israeli's --Byron leaves England--Sale of his Library--The "Sketch from Private Life"--Mr. Sharon Turner's legal opinion--Murray's letter on the arrival of the MS. of "Childe Harold," Canto III.

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