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But that’s not the problem
Then what is?
His eyes board into hers. It’s finding someone to do nothing with, that’s the real test. Someone with whom you just sit and read by the fire…

Someone to do nothing with, that is an excellent line almost redeemed the narrative, almost

Unpardonable treacle
Between Harriet and her father
Honestly, this title has retreated to the saccharin and juvenile dialogue of the first of the series. But reader Be cheered, the second title was very good.

For the rushed and happy ending of the narrative, the facts are the Cataract Surgery in 1815 had a very lengthy recuperative., About two weeks. The success rate was only 50%. But for the plot, the compressed timeframe was acceptable. And of course the hero was heroic and the villain, whose presence was only a few pages was vanquished

Let us not forget the knees to jelly

And here we cue in Bob Dylan’s ‘ shelter from the storm’

Lord Byron’s affair with Lady Oxford lasted for about eight months—from October 1812 to June 1813—and it went remarkably well compared to his usual chaotic standards. For Byron, it was a peaceful, highly sensual interlude that he recalled with deep affection for the rest of his life.

Those are the days when at least adults were screwing other adults and not children. As we have a pedophile president and the Epstein papers, that they so violently are protecting.

Because Lady Oxford’s six children were widely known to have been fathered by different lovers, high society cheekily nicknamed her children the "Harleian Miscellany" (a play on her married surname, Harley.

• The Counter-Caroline: While Caroline Lamb was notoriously erratic, thin, and dramatic, the 40-year-old Lady Oxford was celebrated by Byron as a beautifully mature, voluptuous, and remarkably calm alternative.

Lord Byron began his passionate affair with Lady Oxford in August 1812, immediately after disentangling himself from the obsessive and highly volatile five-month relationship with Lady Caroline Lamb

Caroline's Fixation: Caroline refused to accept the breakup, staging a dramatic bonfire where she burned his gifts and dressing her pages in buttons that read "Ne crede Byron" (Do not believe Byron)