"More than my brothers are to me"--
he had used this expression in the last stanza of Poem ix., and in
repeating it he would apologize to his brother Charles Tennyson, we may
presume.
"Let not this vex thee, noble heart!"
for thou art holding "the costliest love in fee," even a wife's
affection--we may again suppose.
The Rev. Charles Tennyson married Miss Sellwood,[54] and changed his name
to Turner, for property left to him by a relation, and was vicar of
Grasby, in Lincolnshire. The brothers,[55] in their boyhood, shared one
home with all its endearing associations; and now each has his special
object of affection: "my wealth resembles thine;" except that Hallam
"was rich where I was poor,
And he supplied my want the more
As his unlikeness fitted mine."