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Show In the letters and memoirs of Sir William Hardman just published under the title of "A Mid-Victorian Pepys," there is a delightful story of an adventure of Tennyson In Paris. Tennyson could not speak French, and his brother spoke It very badly. The story alleges that his brother, when going out, said to the waiter: "Prenez garde de ne pas laisser sortlr le feu" (take care not to let the fire go out), , pronouncing feu (meaning fire), like fou (meaning fool). When Tennyson himself came downstairs to go out for a walk the waiter barred his way, and whea Tennyson stormed he called the ' other waiters, being confirmed In his jt plalon of tiie poet's insanity by Ten- 1 nyso's eccentricities. I I |