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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER IX
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They humiliate me by their devotion.

Such generosity and delicacy, combined with so much passionate sentiment (there is no other word), are difficult to represent.

The Americans are great in some respects, not that Americans generally are like these, but that these could scarcely be English--for instance, that mixture of enthusiasm and simplicity we have not.

Our journey was delightful and not without some incidents, which might have been accidents.

We were as nearly as possible thrown once into a ditch and once down a mountain precipice, the spirited horses plunging on one side, but at last Mr.Eckley lent us his courier, who sate on the box by the coachman and helped him to manage better.


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