In Rome it must be different, or we shall get on poorly with our books, I think.

Robert seems, however, by his account, to be in an advanced state already....
[_Incomplete._] * * * * * _To Miss I.Blagden_ Casa Guidi: Saturday [about October, 1853].
My dearest Isa,-- ...

I was very sorry on returning from Lucca to find only Mr.Thompson's note and yours; but though we missed him at Florence we shall see him at Rome, I hope.

There was also a card from Miss Lynch,[28] an American poetess (one of the ninety-and-nine muses), with a note of introduction from England.

Do you hear of her at Rome?
The 'Ninth Street' printed on her card leaves me in the infinite as far as conjectures of where she is go.
So pleased I am to get back to Florence, and so little inclined to tumble out of my nest again; yet we _shall go to Rome_ if some new obstacle does not arise.