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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VIII
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He is not degraded by it, you rather think.

Now apply this.

Certainly, there is a reaction from the materialism of the age, and this is certainly well, in my mind, but then there is something more than this, more than a mere human reaction, I believe.

I have not the power of writing myself at all, though I have felt the pencil turn in my hand--a peculiar spiral motion like the turning of the tables, and independent of volition, but the power is not with me strong enough to make words or letters even.
We see a good deal of Fanny Kemble, a noble creature, and hear her sister sing--Mrs.Sartoris.

Do admit a little society.


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