'The queen has a large and passionate temperament, which had only once been touched and brought into intense life.

She would have died by a knife in her heart.

The guard would have come to carry away her dead body.' 'But I imagine that most people interpret it as I do,' was the reply.

'Then,' said Browning, with quick interest, 'don't you think it would be well to put it in the stage directions, and have it seen that they were carrying her across the back of the stage ?'"] [Footnote 32: Browning's eyes were in a remarkable degree unequal in their power of vision; one was unusually long-sighted; the other, with which he could read the most microscopic print, unusually short-sighted.] [Footnote 33: See a very interesting passage on Browning's "odd liking for 'vermin'" in _Letters of R.B.and E.B.B._.

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