[Footnote 73: Story says that Landor "was turned out of doors by his wife and children." He had conveyed the villa to his wife. It is Story who compares Landor to King Lear. "Conversations in a Studio," p. 436.] [Footnote 74: Letters of E.B.B., ii. 354.] [Footnote 75: When Browning at Rome was invited to dine with the Prince of Wales (March 1859) by the desire of Queen Victoria, Mrs Browning told him to "eschew compliments," of his infelicity in uttering which she gives amusing examples. _Letters of E.B.B_., ii. 309, 310.] [Footnote 76: On Browning's action in the affairs of Landor see Forster's _Life of Landor_, and the letters of Browning in vol. ii. of Henry James's _Life of Story_ (pp. 6-11).] [Footnote 77: See, for this residence at Siena, an interesting letter of Story to C. Eliot Norton in Henry James's _W.W. Story_, vol. ii. pp. 14, 15.] [Footnote 78: Condensed from information given by Prinsep to Mrs Orr, _Life and Letters of R.B._, pp. 234-37.] [Footnote 79: _Letters of E.B.B._, ii. 388, note. Mr Kenyon suggests _A Death in the Desert_ as at least possibly meant. _The Ring and the Book_ "certainly had not yet been begun."] [Footnote 80: Halting at Siena, whence Browning wrote an account of the journey to Story: Henry James's _W.W. Story_, ii. pp. 50-52.] [Footnote 81: H. James's _W.W. Story_, vol. ii. pp. 111, 113.] [Footnote 82: Henry James tells of a children's party at the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, of several years earlier, when Hans Andersen read "The Ugly Duckling," and Browning, "The Pied Piper"; which led to "a grand march through the spacious Barberini apartment, with Story doing his best on a flute in default of bagpipes." _W.W. Story_, vol. i.p. 286.] [Footnote 83: The circumstances of Mrs Browning's death are described as above, but with somewhat fuller detail, in a letter of Browning to Miss Haworth, July 20, 1861, first printed by Mrs Orr. Many details of interest will be found in a long letter of Story, Henry James's _W.W. Story_, vol. ii. pp. 61-68: "She talked with him and jested and gave expression to her love in the tenderest words; then, feeling sleepy, and he supporting her in his arms, she fell into a doze. In a few minutes, suddenly, her head dropped forward. He thought she had fainted, but she had gone for ever." A painful account of the funeral service, "blundered through by a fat English parson," is given by Story.] Chapter XI London: Dramatis Personae