[The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning]@TWC D-Link bookThe Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II CHAPTER X 42/138
Since then, he has simply changed the arena of the struggle; he is walking under the earth instead of on the earth, but _straight_ and to unchanged ends. This country, meanwhile, is conducting itself nobly.
It is worthy of becoming a great nation. And God for us all! So you go to England really? Which I doubted, till your letter came. It is well that you did not spend the summer here, for the heat has been ferocious; hotter, people from Corfu say, than it was ever felt there. Italy, however, is apt to be hottish in the summer, as we know very well. The country about here, though not romantic like Lucca, is very pretty, and our windows command sunsets and night winds.
I have not stirred out yet after three weeks of it; you may suppose how reduced I must be.
I could scarcely _stand_ at one time.
The active evil, however, is ended, and strength comes somehow or other.
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