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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER IX
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George Sand had an ivy wreath round her head, and looked like herself; But Lady Monson will talk to you of _her_, better than I can.

Now, mind you ask Lady Monson.
As to this Government, I only entreat you _not_ to believe any of the mendacious reports set afloat here by a most unworthy Opposition, and carried out by the English 'Athenaeum' and other prints.

Surely a cause must be bad which is supported by such bad means.

In the first place, Beranger did _not_ write the verses attributed to him.

The internal evidence was sufficient--for Victor Hugo is his personal enemy--to say nothing of the poetry.


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