LORD TENNYSON'S MANNER.
There are many stories of Lord Tennyson's peculiar gruffness of manner. On one occasion he was at a garden party, and somebody offered him a sandwich. He was labourioußly munching this, when the hostess rushed up to him with anxious inquiries about his health and entertainment. " Thank you, madam," he Baid, " J am eating a sandwich. Are your sandwiches usually made of old boots ? " Another time he was asked to read one of his poems at a house where there was a party of young girls. He blankly refused. •' I shan't ! " he said. Presently he neticed that one of the girls was bo deeply disappointed that the tears stood in her* eyes. He laid his hand on her shoulder, and said, " Would you like to hear me read ? " " Oh, yes ! " she exclaimed. "Then I will. People say I am very grulf, and they are right, but I will read to you." And he took the book and delighted everybody by reading for a long time.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5551, 24 February 1886, Page 4
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