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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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I was a little, little vexed by a letter this morning from my brother George; but _pazienza_, we must bear these things.
Robert called yesterday on Odo Russell, who observed to him that the article in the 'Saturday Review' was infamous, and that the general tone of the newspaper had grown to be so offensive, he should cease to take it in.

(Not on my account, observe.) 'But,' said Mr.Russell, 'it's extraordinary, the sensation your wife's book has made.

Every paper I see has something to say about it,' added he; 'it is curious.

The offence has been less in the objections to England than in the praise of Napoleon.

Certainly Monckton Milnes said a good thing when he was asked lately in Paris what, after all, you English wanted.


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