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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VII
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Chapman & Hall waited too, and that up to the present time 'The Head of the Family' has not arrived.

Mr.
Chapman is slow in finding what he calls his opportunities.
Therefore I can't wait any more, no indeed.

The voice which called 'Dinah' in the garden--which was true, because certainly I did call from Florence with my whole heart to the writer of these verses[13] (how deeply they moved me!)--will have seemed to you by this time as fabulous as the garden itself.

And we had no garden at Florence, I must confess to you, only a terrace facing the grey wall of San Felice church, where we used to walk up and down on the moonlight nights.

But San Felice was always a good saint to me, and when I had read and cried over those verses from the 'Athenaeum' (my husband wrote them out for me at the reading room) and when I had vainly written to England to find out the poet, and when I had all as vainly, on our visit to England last summer, inquired of this person and that person, it turns out after all that 'Dinah' answers me.


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