Reunion of the Brontë Family--Branwell is the supposed Prototype of Victor Crimsworth--That Character not a complete Portrait of Branwell--His Friendships--His Visit to the Keighley Feast--Its Effect on Branwell's Nerves--The Wrestle--The Lost Spectacles--Fear of his Father's Displeasure--Mrs. Gaskell's Story of the 'Black Bull' Incident Questioned--Miss Branwell and her Nephew 81 CHAPTER VI. The youthful Compositions of the Brontës--Their Character-- Branwell's Share in them--'The Secret,' a Fragment--The Reading of the Brontë Children--Branwell's Character at this Period 93 CHAPTER VII. Charlotte goes to Roe Head--Return Home--Branwell at the Time--The Companion of his Sisters--Escorts Charlotte on a Visit--He becomes Interested in Pugilism--His Education--His Love for Music--His Retentive Memory--His Personal Appearance--His Spirit 109 CHAPTER VIII. Love of Art in the Youthful Brontës--Their elaborate Drawings-- J. B. Leyland, Sculptor--Spartacus--Mr. George Hogarth's Opinion--Art Exhibition at Leeds--Mr. William Robinson, their Drawing-Master--Branwell aims at Portrait-Painting--J. B. Leyland in London--Branwell and the Royal Academy--He visits London 123 CHAPTER IX. Charlotte returns as a Teacher, with Emily as a Pupil, to Roe Head--Their Determination to Maintain themselves--Charlotte's Fears respecting Emily--Charlotte's religious Melancholy--Accuses herself of Flippancy--She is on the Borders of Despair--Anxiety to Know more of the World--Emily at Law Hill, Halifax, as a Teacher--Charlotte's Excitability--She returns Home out of Health 147 CHAPTER X. The Light in which Biographers have regarded Branwell-- Bibliography--Mrs. Gaskell--The Causes which led her into Error--Resentment of Branwell's Friends--Mr. George Searle Phillips--Branwell as Depicted by Mr. T. Wemyss Reid--Mr. F. H. Grundy's Notice of Branwell--Miss A. Mary F. Robinson's Portrait of Branwell 159 CHAPTER XI. Branwell becomes a Freemason--His love of Art undiminished--Has Instruction in Oil-Painting--Commences Portrait-Painting at Bradford--His Commissions--His Letter to Mr. Thompson, the Artist--Miss Robinson's Charges of Misconduct--Her Erroneous Statements--Branwell's true Character and Conduct at Bradford --Remarks on his alleged Opium-eating there 172 CHAPTER XII. New Inspiration of Poetry--Wordsworth--Southey, Scott, and Byron--Southey to Charlotte Brontë--Hartley Coleridge--His Worthies of Yorkshire--Poets of the West-Riding--Alaric A. Watts--Branwell's Literary Abilities 184 CHAPTER XIII.