He was then, I should judge, about thirty-seven years of age, but his dark hair was already streaked with gray about the temples.

His complexion was fair, with perhaps the faintest olive tinge, eyes large, clear, and gray, nose strong and well cut, mouth full and rather broad, and chin pointed, though not prominent.

His forehead broadened rapidly upwards from the outer angle of the eyes, slightly retreating.

The strong individuality which marks his poetry was expressed not only in his face and head, but in his whole demeanour.

He was about the medium height, strong in the shoulders, but slender at the waist, and his movements expressed a combination of vigour and elasticity." Mrs Browning with her slight figure, pale face, shaded by chestnut curls, and grave eyes of bluish gray, is also described; and presently entered to the American visitor Pen, a blue-eyed, golden-haired boy, who babbled his little sentences in Italian.
When, towards the close of September, Browning and his wife left London for Paris, Carlyle by his own request was their companion on the journey.