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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER IX
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Think of that.

He was in Pisa and in Florence for a day, saw friends of his and acquaintances of ours with whom he stayed four months on the last occasion, and who implicitly believe in him.

An Englishwoman, who from infidel opinions was converted by his instrumentality to a belief in the life after death, has died in Paris, and left him an annuity of L240, English.

On coming here, he paid all his wandering debts, I am glad to hear, and is even said to have returned certain _gifts_ which had been rendered unacceptable to him from the bad opinion of the givers.

I hear, too, that his manners, as well as morals, are wonderfully improved.


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