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Browning's frantic sorrow were addressed, I believe, to his sister, and to the friend, Madame du Quaire, whose own recent loss most naturally invoked them, and who has since thought best, so far as rested with her, to destroy the letters in which they were contained. It is enough to know by simple statement that he then suffered as he did.
He keeps the hair now closer, and the beard is pointed. . . . As to the moony whiteness of the beard, it is beautiful, I think, but then I think him all beautiful, and always. . . . Mr. Browning's old friend, Madame du Quaire,* came to Rome in December.
He would also declaim passages from his wife's poems; and when, on one of these occasions, Madame du Quaire had said, as so many persons now say, that she much preferred his poetry to hers, he made this characteristic answer, to be repeated in substance some years afterwards to another friend: 'You are wrong quite wrong she has genius; I am only a painstaking fellow.
In 1888 he went to Brighton with a nurse, returned to rooms on Richmond Hill, then to Bayswater Terrace. An operation was performed and he seemed to recover, but relapsed. Old friends tended him: Madame Novikoff, Mr. Froude and Mr. Lecky, Madame de Quaire and Mrs. Brookfield, Lord Mexborough his ancient fellow-traveller, Mrs.
His plan of life and duty, and the sense of responsibility attendant on it, had been communicated to Madame du Quaire in a letter written also from St.-Enogat. M. Chauvin, St.-Enogat pres Dinard, Ile et Vilaine: Aug. 17, '61. Dear Madame du Quaire, I got your note on Sunday afternoon, but found myself unable to call on you as I had been intending to do.
Browning's Letters continued Walter Savage Landor Winter in Rome Mr. Val Prinsep Friends in Rome: Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright Multiplying Social Relations Massimo d'Azeglio Siena again Illness and Death of Mrs. Browning's Sister Mr. Browning's Occupations Madame du Quaire Mrs. Browning's last Illness and Death. I cannot quite ascertain, though it might seem easy to do so, whether Mr. and Mrs.
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