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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER X
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You won't expel it, in the manner of the Paris Exhibition, for its nudity--lies--not mistakes.

For instance, while the very peasants here are giving their crazie, the very labourers their day's work (once in a week or so)--while everyone gives, and every man almost (who can go) goes--the 'Times' says that Piedmont had derived neither paul nor soldier from Tuscany.

Tell me what people get by lying so?
Faustus sold himself to the Devil.

Does Austria pay a higher price, I wonder?
Such things I could tell you--things to moisten your eyes--to wring that burning eloquence of yours from your lips.

But Robert waits to take this letter.


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