CHAPTER XI 

 AFTER RETURN HOME MARRIAGE 



Yacht to Norway Dover Marriage Relations of my own ; those 



of my wife 



ON returning to England, my gratification was 

 great in finding all my immediate relatives well 

 and eager to welcome me. But I was rather used up 

 in health, and desired to get out of the way of being 

 lionised, which is exceedingly wearisome to the lion 

 after the first excitement and novelty of the process 

 have worn away. So I gladly accepted an invitation 

 from Sir Hyde Parker to yacht and fish with him in 

 Norway. He was a famed fisherman, and had landed 

 in Norway the largest salmon on record with a fly, 

 66 Ib. in weight, authoritatively confirmed. Several 

 of his yachting friends were to have sailed at the 

 same time ; but their plans were affected by the 

 electioneering then going on ; consequently, after the 

 loss of some precious days, we were accompanied 

 only by the yachts of Mr. Bentinck and Mr. Milner 

 Gibson. 



The former told us interesting anecdotes of Lord 

 Brougham's early rise at the Bar, how eagerly his 

 help was sought by the smart men of those days 

 when they got into scrapes, as being more likely 

 to get them out of their difficulties than any one 



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