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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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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.


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