I think there's a good deal of jealousy about the French alliance.

That may account for something....
Dearest, kindest Sarianna, remember not to think any more about me, except that I love you, that I am your attached BA.
FOOTNOTES: [15] _Life and Letters of Robert Browning_, by Mrs.Sutherland Orr, p.
216.
[16] The late Earl Lytton.
[17] Auguste Brizieux [18] _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, published in 1852.
[19] Mrs.Jameson's _Legends of the Madonna_.
[20] General Franklin Pierce.
[21] 'Tamerton Church Tower, and other Poems.' [22] In a letter to Miss Mitford, written four days later than this, Mrs.Browning alludes again to the performance of 'Colombe's Birthday:' 'Yes--Robert's play succeeded, but there could be no "run" for a play of that kind; it was a _succes d'estime_ and something more, which is surprising, perhaps, considering the miserable acting of the men.

Miss Faucit was alone in doing us justice.' [23] A few lines have been cut off the letter at this place.
[24] A letter to the _Athenaeum_ on July 2, 1853, giving the result of some experiments in table-turning, the tendency of which was to show that the motion of the table was due to unconscious muscular action on the part of the persons touching the table.
[25] Senatore Villari.
[26] Mr.George Barrett.

The omitted passage describes an act of generosity by him to one of his younger brothers.
[27] Hardly a successful horoscope of the future Ambassador at Paris and Viceroy of India.
[28] Afterwards wife of Signor Carlo Botta, an Italian man of letters, with whom she returned to America and lived in New York.
[29] This refers to the death of the infant child of the Storys, with whom Mr.and Mrs.Browning were on intimate terms of friendship, as the previous letters show.
[30] According to Mr.R.B.Browning, this is practically what has happened with Page's portrait of Robert Browning (now in Venice).

The surface has become thick and waxy, and the portrait has almost disappeared.
[31] Author of 'IX.