I shouldn't like, for my part (and if I were a fish), to herd with crocodiles.

But I suppose the 'Household Words' _pay_--and that's a consideration.

'Claudie' I have not read.

We have only just subscribed to a library, and we have been absorbed a good deal by our visitors....
Write and don't leave off loving me.

I will tell you of everybody noticeable whom I happen to see, and of George Sand among the first.
Love your ever affectionate BA.
* * * * * _To Mrs.Jameson_ [Paris,] 138 Avenue des Champs-Elysees: December 10, [1851].
I receive your letter, dearest friend, and hasten to write a few brief words to save the post.
We have suffered neither fear nor danger--and I would not have missed the grand spectacle of the second of December[7] for anything in the world--scarcely, I say, for the sight of the Alps.
On the only day in which there was much fighting (Thursday), Wiedeman was taken out to walk as usual, under the precaution of keeping in the immediate neighbourhood of this house.