We might _die_, indeed....
May God bless both of you always! I have pretty good letters from home.
Home! what's home?
Your ever affectionate and grateful BA.
Read 'La Foi des Traites'; it is from the hand of Louis Napoleon.

So that I was prepared for the amnesty and for what follows.
* * * * * The following letters to Mr.Chorley relate to Mrs.Browning's poem 'A Tale of Villafranca,' which was published in the 'Athenaeum' for September 24, and subsequently included in the volume of 'Poems before Congress' (_Poetical Works_, iv.

195).
* * * * * _To Mr.Chorley_ Villa Alberti, Siena: September 12, [1859].
My dear Mr.Chorley,--This isn't a _letter_, as you will see at a glance.

I should have written to you long since, and have also sent this poem (which solicits a place in the 'Athenaeum') if I had not been very ill and been very slow in getting well.

We wanted to answer your kind letter, and shall.