He had only taken, as I have said, a little broth and two spoonfuls of arrowroot for eight days. He took the quinine, and showed by signs that he wanted to sleep; he did not speak again unless questioned. "Would you like me to fetch Mr. Parry?" Fletcher asked him. "Yes, go and fetch him," he replied. A moment later, the valet returned with him. Mr. Parry leant over his bed, and Byron became excited as he recognised him. "Lie quite quiet," said Mr. Parry; and the invalid shed a few tears and then seemed to fall asleep. This was the beginning of a state of coma that lasted nearly twenty-four hours. Then, towards eight in the evening, he roused, and Fletcher heard him say, "And now I must go to sleep...." They were the last words he uttered. His head fell back motionless on his pillow. He never moved for twenty-four hours; there were occasional spasms of suffocation and a raucous sound in his breathing: that was all. Fletcher called Tita to help him raise the head of the invalid, who seemed quite numbed, and the two servants raised his head every time the signs of suffocation returned. This lasted until the 19th, when, at six in the evening, Byron opened and closed his eyes without any sign of pain and without moving any other part of his body. "Oh! my God," cried Fletcher, "I think my lord has breathed his last!" The doctors came near and felt his pulse. "You are right," said they; "he is dead!...." On 22 April, Byron's remains were taken to the church where Marco Bozariz and General Normann lie buried. The body was enclosed in a rough wooden coffin; it was covered by a black mantle, and on the mantle they placed a helmet, a sword and a wreath of laurels. Byron had expressed a wish that his body should be buried in his native land; but the Greeks asked to be allowed to keep his heart, and those who had cruelly made that heart bleed when he was alive, gave it up when he was dead. His daughter Ada, whom I have since seen in Florence, was declared the adopted daughter of Greece. I do not know whether King Otho I. remembered this fact when he came to the throne. CHAPTER IV Usurped celebrity--M. Lemercier and his works--Racan's white hare-_Le Fiesque_ by M. Ancelot--The Romantic artists--Scheffer--Delacroix --Sigalon--Schnetz--Coigniet--Boulanger--Géricault--_La Méduse_ in the artist's studio--Lord Byron's funeral obsequies in England--Sheridan's body claimed for debt