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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER IX
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Bonnets are a great deal larger, but you shall see.
Oh, so glad I am to be back--so glad, so glad! And so happy I shall be to see you, dearest Fanny, whom, till now, I have not thanked for the pretty, pretty sketch.

I recognised the persons at a glance, you threw into them so much character....
Your ever most affectionate E.B.B.
* * * * * _To Miss Browning_ [Florence: about November 1858.] Robert's uncertainty about Rome, my dearest Sarianna, has led him into delay of writing.

We dropped here upon summer, and a few days afterwards, just as suddenly, the winter dropped upon _us_.

Such wonderful weather, such cold, such snow--enough to strangle one.

The rain has come, however, to-day, and though everything feels wretched enough, and I am languid about schemes of travelling, we talk of going next week, should nothing hinder.
'If it be possible After much grief and pain.' Peni would rather stay, I believe.


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