Thus, with the garrulity of wandering age, he prattled on, but his mind was clear and his memory tenacious and positive.

Byron's garrulity with regard to those delicate matters on which men of more prudence or chivalry are wont to set the seal of silence, has often the same practical effect as reticence; for he talks so much at largeevery page of his Journal being, by his own admission, apt to "confute and abjure its predecessor"that we are often none the wiser.