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"Take Byron,"she [Leo] pursued. "Mad, bad and dangerous to know. He swept Europe with that line; and they still fall for it, believe me. And then look at Shelley. He did good like blazes to every woman he took up with, and what happened? They got madder than hornets, or threw themselves in ponds. None of Byron's women ever committed suicide, that I can remember offhand."

瑞瑙特對拜倫興趣很大，二戰後半途而輟的一部小說是寫他的。