40/329 In fact, Robert was a little vexed with me for not being vexed enough. I was only vexed enough when the 'Athenaeum' corrected its misstatement in its own way. _That did_ extremely vex me, for it made me look ungenerous, cowardly, mean--as if, in haste to escape from the dogs in England, I threw them the good name of America. 'Mrs.Browning _now states_.' Well, dear Mr.Chorley, it was not your doing. So the thing that 'vexed me enough' in you was a mistake of mine. |