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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VII
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They are very affectionate to me, and I love them for his sake and their own, and am very sorry at the thought of losing them, which we are on the point of doing.

We hope, however, to establish them in Paris if we can stay, and if no other obstacle should arise before the spring, when they must leave Hatcham.

Little Wiedeman _draws_; as you may suppose, he is adored by his grandpapa; and then, Robert! they are an affectionate family and not easy when removed one from another.
Sarianna is full of accomplishment and admirable sense, even-tempered and excellent in all ways--devoted to her father as she was to her mother: indeed, the relations of life seem reversed in their case, and the father appears the child of the child....
Perhaps you have not seen Eugene Sue's 'Mysteres de Paris'-- and I am not deep in the first volume yet.

Fancy the wickedness and stupidity of trying to revive the distinctions and hatreds of race between the Gauls and Franks.

The Gauls, please to understand, are the 'proletaires,' and the capitalists are the Frank invaders (call them Cosaques, says Sue) out of the forests of Germany!...
I saw no Mr.Harness; and no Talfourd of any kind.


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