Adele stayed at Chelmsford until September, when he wrote the long poem of "Farewell," dated the eve of their last meeting and parting.
At twenty young men do not die of love; but I find that a fortnight after writing this he was taken seriously ill.

During the winter of 1839-40 the negotiations for the marriage in Paris went on.

It took place in March.

They kept the news from him as long as they could, for he was in the schools next Easter term, and Mr.Brown (his college tutor) had seemed to hope he would get a First, so his mother wrote to her husband.

In May he was pronounced consumptive, and had to give up Oxford, and all hope of the distinction for which he had laboured, and with that any plans that might have been entertained for his distinction in the Church.