The Sartoris's house has the best society at Rome, and exquisite music, of course.

We met Lockhart there, and my husband sees a good deal of him--more than I do, because of the access of cold weather lately which has kept me at home chiefly.

Robert went down to the seaside in a day's excursion with him and the Sartoris's; and, I hear, found favor in his sight.

Said the critic: 'I like Browning, he isn't at all like a damned literary man.' That's a compliment, I believe, according to your dictionary.

It made me laugh and think of you directly.