Don Juan 01-151
Canto the First

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"Was it for this you took your sudden journey.
     Under pretence of business indispensable
With that sublime of rascals your attorney,
     Whom I see standing there, and looking sensible
Of having play'd the fool- though both I spurn, he
     Deserves the worst, his conduct's less defensible,
Because, no doubt, 't was for his dirty fee,
And not from any love to you nor me.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong