Browning. He was very agreeable, and seemed delighted to see me again.
At lunch, we had Lord Dufferin, the Honorable Mrs. Norton, and Mr.
Sterling (author of the "Cloister Life of Charles V."), with whom we are
to dine on Sunday.
You would be stricken dumb, to see how quietly I accept a whole string of
invitations, and what is more, perform my engagements without a murmur.
A German artist has come to me with a letter of introduction, and a
request that I will sit to him for a portrait in bas-relief. To this,
likewise, I have assented! subject to the condition that I shall have my
leisure.
The stir of this London life, somehow or other, has done me a wonderful
deal of good, and I feel better than for months past. This is strange,
for if I had my choice, I should leave undone almost all the things I do.
I have had time to see Bennoch only once.
[This closes the European Journal. After Mr. Hawthorne's return to
America, he published "Our Old Home," and began a new romance, of which
two chapters appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.
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