“Perhaps when we get home we shall find Mr Strange with papa,” she said. “Perhaps,” said Miss Greysteel. “Or maybe he has gone to play billiards with Lord Byron again,” said Aunt Greysteel. “It is odd that they should be friends. They seem such very different gentlemen.” “Oh, indeed! Though Mr Strange told me that he found Lord Byron a great deal less agreeable when he met him in Swisserland. His lordship was with some other poetical people who claimed all his attention and whose company he clearly preferred to that of any one else. Mr Strange says that he was barely civil.” “Well, that is
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