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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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I couldn't get at her through the people yesterday.
She is very nice, gentle-looking, cheerful, respectable sort of--single-womanish person (decidedly single) of the olden type; very small, slim, quiet, with the nearest approach to a poky bonnet possible in this sinful generation.

I, in my confusion, did not glance at her petticoats, but, judging _a priori_, I should predicate a natural incompatibility with crinoline.

But really I liked her, liked her.

There were gentleness, humility, and conscience--three great gifts.

Of course we can touch only on remote points; but I hope (for my own sake) we may touch on these, and another day I mean to try.


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