And we shall have _Him_ beside, I pray of Him." At Hodgson's, the stationer and bookseller's, they found Browning, and a little later husband and wife, with the brave Wilson and the discreet Flush, were speeding from Vauxhall to Southampton, in good time to catch the boat for Havre.

A north wind blew them vehemently from the English coast.

In the newspaper announcements of the wedding the date was to be omitted, and Browning rejected the suggestion that on this occasion, and with reference to the great event of his life, he should be defined to the public as "the author of _Paracelsus_." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 35: _Letters of E.B.B._, i.

288.] [Footnote 36: See _Letters of R.B.and E.B.B_., i.

281.] [Footnote 37: E.B.B.to R.B., March 30, 1846.] [Footnote 38: E.B.B.to R.B., Sept.