[The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning]@TWC D-Link bookThe Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II CHAPTER VIII 179/268
Mr.Fisher's cartoon of him is very pretty, but doesn't do him justice in the delicacy of the lower part of the face. Yet I can't complain of Mr.Fisher after the admirable likeness he has painted of Robert.
It is really _satisfying_ to me.
You will see it in London.
Oh, how cruel it is that we can't buy it, Sarianna; I have a sort of hope that Mr.Kenyon may--but zitto, zitto![34] Arabel will be very grateful to you for the drawings.... [_Endorsed by Miss Browning_, '_Part of a letter_'] * * * * * The plans, thus confidently spoken of, for a visit to Paris and London in the summer of this year, did not attain fulfilment.
The Brownings left Rome for Florence about the end of May, intending to stay there only a few weeks; but their arrangements were altered by letters received from England, and ultimately they remained in Florence until the summer of the following year.
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