Tennyson's garden was full of historical interest. This tree was planted by the well-known Duchess of Sutherland; thas one by Garibaldi; that cedar on the lawn was brought from Lebanon, and something else was connected with General Gordon, Tennyson loved his garden and his farmyard and his flowers, but groaned over the per-sections he suffered at the hands of cheap-trippers. Just look at that bed," he said to me, pointing oura strip of mould some ten or twelve feet long, "not a flower left—all stolen A few days ago that bed was " mass of yellow daffodils." A minute or so afterwards we approached one of the back-gates of the garden which led to the farmyard, Tennyson was on the point of lifting the latch when the sound of foot+ steps was heard in the lane outside. "Hist!" he whispered, turning to us.~ Then he crouched down, waiting till the people should have passed. Such was his horror of being stared at.
STUDIED CARELESSNESS, There is no doubt that a large proportion of the visitors to Freshwater behaved abominably, but Ido not wonder that when they did meet Tennyson they gazed their fill. With huge, black, spreading sombrero and heavy, many-pleated cloak, he certainly presented a strange figure. In fact he looked not unlike the traditional representations of Guy Faux. And he was very careless—studiously careless, even—in the way he put his clothes on, For instance, he invariably tied his necktie upside down, so that instead of.a symmetrical bow it formed an..awl vets Toone knot, twisted, the, wrong. way;,, His,.coat,
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