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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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The _soeurs de charite_, who are of all Catholic nations, are organised entirely by the French.

The institutions here are branch institutions.

In Rome the tendency of everything is to confusion and 'individuality' with separate pockets.

Lamoriciere was in despair at it all, and even now people talk of his resigning, though he gave a dinner the other day to his staff, with the toast of '_Henri Cinq_.' Individuality is an excellent thing in its place, and an infamous thing out of it.

In England we have some very successful efforts at organisation--the post office, which is nearly perfect, and society, in which the demarcation between class and class is much too perfect to be humane.


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