[The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning]@TWC D-Link bookThe Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II CHAPTER VII 52/192
What a beautiful winter garden it would be! But they will pull it down, perhaps; and then, the last we shall have seen of it will be in this description of your letter, and _that's_ seeing it worthily, too. We were from home last night; we went to Lady Elgin's reception, and met a Madame Mohl, who was entertaining, and is to come to us this morning-- She came as I wrote those words.
She knows _you_, among her other advantages, and we have been talking of you, dear friend, and we are going to her on Friday evening to see some of the French.
I shall have to go to prison very soon, I suppose, as usual, for the winter months, for here is the twenty-first of October, though this is the first fire we have had occasion for.
It was colder this morning, but we have had exquisite weather, really, ever since we left England. The 'elf' is flourishing in all good fairyhood, with a scarlet rose leaf on each cheek.
Wilson says she never knew him to have such an irreproachable appetite.
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