From Lord Byron, English poet, to Annabella Milbanke, his future wife - November 16, 1814

"My Heart,

"We are thus far separated - but after all one mile is as bad as a thousand - which is a great consolation to one who must travel six hundred before he meets you again.

"If it will give you any satisfaction - I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity - Chastity or any other Virtue."