Their hands are too full to gather simples.

It seems to me a new development of law in the human constitution, which has worked before in exceptional cases, but now works in general.
Dearest friend, I do not speak of your own anxious watch and tender grief, but think of them deeply.

Believe that I love you always and in all truth.
Your E.B.B.
* * * * * _To Miss E.F.

Haworth_ [Rome:] 43 Bocca di Leone: December 27, [1853].
My dearest Fanny,--I can't judge of your 'obstacles,' of course, but as to your being snowed up on the road or otherwise impeded between Rome and Civita (Castellana or Vecchia), there's certainly not room for even a dream of it.

There has been beautiful weather here ever since we came, except for exacting invalids.