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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VII
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Love's love.

She meant the best to me--and so, do you, who have a much more penetrating sense of delicacy, forgive her for my sake, dear friend....
Of the memoirs of Madame Ossoli, I know only the extracts in the 'Athenaeum.' She was a most interesting woman to me, though I did not sympathise with a large portion of her opinions.

Her written works are just _naught_.

She said herself they were sketches, thrown out in haste and for the means of subsistence, and that the sole production of hers which was likely to represent her at all would be the history of the Italian Revolution.

In fact, her reputation, such as it was in America, seemed to stand mainly on her conversation and oral lectures.


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