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Excerpt from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 of 6: With His Letters and Journals You tell me to take care of myself - faith, and I will. I won't be posthumous yet, if I can help it. Notwithstanding, only think what a Life and Adventures, ' while I am in full scandal, would be worth, together with the membra' of my writing desk, the sixteen beginnings of poems never to be finished I Do you think I would not have shot myself last year, had I not luckily recollected that Mrs. C at and Lady N and all the old women in England would have been delighted besides the agreeable Lunacy, ' of the Crowner's Quest, ' and the regrets of two or three or half a dozen? Be assured that I would live for two reasons, or more there are one or two people whom I have to put out of the world and as many into it, before I can depart in peace if I do so before, I have not fulfilled my mission. Besides, when I turn thirty, I will turn devout; I feel a great vocation that way in Catholic churches, and when I hear the organ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.