Who can say?
Meanwhile, _Lavengro_ contains no happier pages than those concerned with this dearly loved brother.
[Illustration: GEORGE BORROW'S BIRTHPLACE AT DUMPLING GREEN _From a drawing by Fortunino Matania_] FOOTNOTES: [15] I am not able to trace more than three of John Borrow's pictures: firstly, a portrait of George Borrow, reproduced in this book, which was long in the possession of Mr.William Jarrold, the well-known publisher of Norwich, and is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been purchased by the Director in 1912; secondly, the portrait of Borrow's father in the possession of a lady at Leamington; and thirdly, _The Judgment of Solomon_, which for a long time hung as an overmantel in the Borrow Home in Willow Lane, Norwich.

Dr.Knapp also saw in Norwich 'A Portrait of a Gentleman,' by John Borrow.

A second portrait of George Borrow by his brother was taken by the latter to Mexico, and has not since been heard of.
[16] _Lavengro_, ch.

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[17] _Life of B.R.Haydon_, by Tom Taylor, 1853, vol.ii.p.

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[18] Or perhaps the experience contained in a letter to Miss Mitford in 1824 (_Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table Talk_, 2 vols., 1876): 'I have had a horrid week with a mother and eight daughters! Mamma _remembering_ herself a beauty; Sally and Betsey, etc., see her a matron.