Throughout November Keats was so fully absorbed in attendance on his dying brother as to be unfit for poetry or correspondence. On the night of December 1 the end came. 'Early the next morning,' writes Brown, 'I was awakened in bed by a pressure on my hand. It was Keats, who came to tell me that his brother was no more. I said nothing, and we both remained silent for a while, my hand fast locked in his. At length, my thoughts returning from the dead to the living, I said,--"Have nothing more to do with those lodgings,--and alone too! Had you not better live with me?" He paused, pressed my hand warmly, and replied, "I think it would be better." From that moment he was my inmate.' FOOTNOTES: [1] Houghton MSS. [2] The source is the Spanish _sangrador_, blood-letter; which Le Sage in _Gil Blas_ converts into a proper name, Sangrado. [3] The old _Scots Magazine_ lately re-started under a new name; see above, p. 132. CHAPTER XI DECEMBER 1818-JUNE 1819: KEATS AND BROWN HOUSEMATES: FANNY BRAWNE: WORK AND IDLENESS Removal to Wentworth Place--Work on _Hyperion_--The insatiable Haydon--The Misses Porter--A mingled yarn--Charles Lamb and punning--Hunt and his satellites--Fanny Brawne--A sudden enslavement--Severn's impressions--Visit to Hampshire--_The Eve of St. Agnes_--Return and engagement--Ode to Fanny--Love and jealousy--Haydon again--Letters to Fanny Keats--Two months' idleness--Praise of claret--Bailey's love-affairs--Fit of languor--Fight with a butcher--Sonnet-confessions--Reflections ethical and cosmic--Meeting with Coleridge--The same according to the sage--A tactful review--Sonnets on fame--_La Belle Dame Sans Merci_--The right version quoted--The five Odes--Their date and order--A fruitful May--Indecision and anxiety--A confidential letter--Departure for Shanklin.