[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 73/329
Do knock at Mrs.Milner Gibson's doors till you get to see the 'hands' and the 'heads' and the 'bodies' and the 'celestial garlands' which she has the privilege of being familiar with. _Touch_ the hands.
Has Mr.Monckton Milnes seen anything so as to believe? Is it true that Lord Lyndhurst was lifted up in a chair? Does he believe? I hear through Mr.Trollope and Chapman that Edwin Landseer has received the faith, and did everything possible to persuade Dickens to investigate, which Dickens refused.
Afraid of the truth, of course, having deeply committed himself to negatives.
This is a moral _lachete_, hard for my feminine mind to conceive of.
Dickens, too, who is so fond of ghost-stories, as long as they are impossible.... I can scarcely imagine the summer's passing without a struggle on the Continent of Italy.
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