9/80 With the world of society and affairs she had other channels of communication. But no one of her other friends--not _Orion_ Horne, not even Kenyon--bridged as Browning did the gulf between the world of society and affairs, which she vaguely knew, and the romantic world of poetry in which she lived. If she quickened the need for lyrical utterance in him, he drew her, in his turn, into a closer and richer contact with common things. If she had her part in _Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day_, he had his, no less, in _Aurora Leigh_. 1846.] Twenty-one months passed between Browning's first letter and their marriage. |