[The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning]@TWC D-Link bookThe Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II CHAPTER XI 102/329
After all I try to be patient and wait quietly, and there ought to be hope and faith meantime. The pen-utilities themselves don't pass uncontested, as you observe. Yes, I see the 'Spiritual Magazine,' and remarked how I was scourged in the house of my friends.
Robert shouted in triumph at it, and hoped I was pleased, and as for myself, it really did make me smile a little, which was an advantage, in the sad humour I was in at the time. 'Biologised by infernal spirits since "_Casa Guidi Windows_"' yet 'Casa Guidi Windows' was not wholly vicious it seems to me, nor 'Aurora' utterly corrupt.
And Mr.Howitt is both a clever man, and an honest and brave man, for all his sweeping opinions.
Biologised and be-Harrised _he_ is certainly.
What an extraordinary admiration! I wonder at _that_ more than at any of the external spiritual phenomena.
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