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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VIII
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I hear Hebrew while the 'Gazette' hears Dutch--a miracle befitting the subject, or what was once considered to be the subject (I beg Professor Faraday's pardon), before it was annihilated.
How pert women can be, can't they, Mr.Chorley?
particularly when they are safe among the mountains, shut in with a row of seven plane-trees joined at top.

I won't go on to offer myself as 'spiritual correspondent to the "Athenaeum,"' though I have a modest conviction that it might increase your sale considerably.

Ah, tread us down! put us out! You will have some trouble with us yet.

The opposition Czar of St.Petersburg supports us, be it known, and Louis Napoleon comes to us for oracles.
The King of Holland is going mad gently in our favour--quite absorbed, says an informant.

But I won't quote kings.


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