ii.284.On Milsand, the article "A French friend of Browning," by Th.

Bentzon, is valuable and interesting.] [Footnote 50: Mrs Orr says that Browning always thought Mrs Carlyle "a hard and unlovable woman"; she adds, "I believe little liking was lost between them." Mrs Ritchie, in her "Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning" (pp.

250, 251), tells with spirit the story of Browning and Mrs Carlyle's kettle, which, on being told to "put it down," in an absent mood he planted upon her new carpet.

"Ye should have been more explicit," said Carlyle to his wife.] [Footnote 51: See Letters of E.B.B.

ii.