16/268 Robert has not passed an evening from home since we came--just as if we had never known Paris. People come sometimes to have tea and talk with us, but that's all; a few intelligent and interesting persons sometimes, such as Mr.Tennyson (the poet's brother) and Mr.Lytton (the novelist's son) and Mr.Stuart, the lecturer on Shakespeare, whom once I named to you, I fancy. Mr.Tennyson married an Italian, and has four children. He has much of the atmosphere poetic about him, a dreamy, speculative, shy man, reminding us of his brother in certain respects; good and pure-minded. |