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111, 113.] [Footnote 82: Henry James tells of a children's party at the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, of several years earlier, when Hans Andersen read "The Ugly Duckling," and Browning, "The Pied Piper"; which led to "a grand march through the spacious Barberini apartment, with Story doing his best on a flute in default of bagpipes." _W.W.Story_, vol.i.p.
286.] [Footnote 83: The circumstances of Mrs Browning's death are described as above, but with somewhat fuller detail, in a letter of Browning to Miss Haworth, July 20, 1861, first printed by Mrs Orr.
Many details of interest will be found in a long letter of Story, Henry James's _W.W. Story_, vol.ii.pp.
61-68: "She talked with him and jested and gave expression to her love in the tenderest words; then, feeling sleepy, and he supporting her in his arms, she fell into a doze.
In a few minutes, suddenly, her head dropped forward.
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