A Long Courtship.
Tennyson, like Mr Gladstone, unlike Carlyle and William Pitt (says the London correspondent of the Argus) was close and cautious in money matters, and in regard to his private affairs.'- It is a characteristic of him that he was engaged to be married to Lady Tennyson for twenty yeais. He was in truth sluggish in his love-making, and it might never have come to anything but that ooe day, at the end of the twenty years, the poet said to his intended, " Don't . you think that people will say we are" rather foolish if we get married after all this time." Miss Sellwood replied, with much presence of mind, "They would think us much more foolish if we broke it off.
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Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1892, Page 2
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124A Long Courtship. Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1892, Page 2
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