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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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The account she gave of the English workhouses and hospitals was very sad, very cruel, corresponding, in fact, to what I have heard from other quarters.
Ah, Sarianna, 'charming old men' who call the Tuscans angels, except that they lie (what an exception!), can be mistaken like others.

_That_ passes for 'liberality,' does it?
We are not angels, and we don't lie--there's no more lying in Italy than in England, I begin to affirm.
Also, M.Tassinari was in prison, not a week but a month--and well did he deserve it.

We deal now in French coinage, and are to see no more pauls after the middle of next month.

Robert thinks it will destroy the last vestige of our cheapness, but I am very favorable to a unification of international coinage.

It agrees with my theories, you know.
We are all talking and dreaming Garibaldi just now in great anxiety.
Scarcely since the world was a world has there been such a feat of arms.
All modern heroes grow pale before him.


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