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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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Penini has his pony and rides, and studies with his Abbe, and looks very rosy and well.

I help him to prepare his lessons, but that is all, except hearing him read a little German now and then, and Robert sees to the music, and the getting up of the arithmetic.

For the first time I have had pain in looking into his face lately--which you will understand.
I saw a man from Naples two days since, an Englishman of intelligence and impartiality, who has resided there for months in the heart of the politics.

He told me that the exaggeration of evils was great.

Evils there were certainly; and no government succeeding Garibaldi's could have satisfied a public trained to expect the impossible.


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