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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VIII
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Forgive me, do.

I feel guilty somehow to the extreme degree, that four letters should have been written to me, even though I received none of them, because I ought to have written at least one letter in that time.
Your politics would be my politics on most points; we should run together more than halfway, if we could stand side by side, in spite of all your vindictiveness to N.III.My hero--say you?
Well, I have more belief in him than you have.

And what is curious, and would be unaccountable, I suppose, to English politicians in general, the Italian democrats of the lower classes, the popular clubs in Florence, are clinging to him as their one hope.

Ah, here's oppression! here's a people trodden down! You should come here and see.

It is enough to turn the depths of the heart bitter.


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