![]() ![]() 'If we may use the expression, their Union of affection is what we conceive of marriage in Heaven,' remarked another of their hiends, in a letter to his wife: 'They are the World one to the other.' Neither sibling was to marry. Their shared interests - in books and in the theatre, for example - were enriched by common experience. 'As, amongst certain classes of birds, if you have one you are sure of the other, so, with respect to the Lambs observed De Quincey 'seeing or hearing the brother, you knew that the sister could not be far off.' All who came across them remarked admiringly on their mutual devotion, and the abiding love thev showed for each other. They were the most intimate of companions, apparently inseparable. WORDSWORTH DESCRIBED CHARLES Lamb and his older sister Mary as 'a double tree / with two collateral stems sprung from one root'. ![]()
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