At this stage Mr, Barrett vanishes from the narrative, "Irreconellble to the last," writes Mr. Bur-deft, "he never answered her letters or mentioned her in his will. Ho later told Mr. Kenyon, who con fessed that he could not understand such hostility to the mare riage: 'I have no objection to the young man, but my daughter should have" been thinking of another That "other world" Brow ing him. self was to supply. It was a, world of fvecdom and in 1849 set the seal pon their felicity. They remained lovers to the end, and Elizabeth's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" will remain for all time as a testimony to the peace and joy which her mare riage had brought into her life, She died on June 29, 1861, What feer death meant to her husband no tone will ever know. Concerning it, Mr. G, K. Chesterton has written: 'None' ever saw Browning upon with again, but only a splendid surface,"
'A Beautifal Story Some years before Browning had written in the concluding poem in "Men and Women'
God he thanked, the meanest of His Boost two seulsiden, one to face the One Yo show s'moman when he.lové ne to thow #-meinan when he.lovés That other and fuer "soul-sida* Browning retained to the end of hi days, Mr. Burdett has retold much skill, sympathy, and. fanding what is perhaps the beautiful love-story in the whol English literature—ax.r. in "John, 'o'London's Weekl}
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