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I'll bet she goes out to Washington state and gets elected governor some day. I went over to Browning Hall the night after the election, ready to tell Miss Hicks just what everybody thought of her. I was prepared to tell her that every athletic team in college was going to disband and that anarchy would be declared in the morning. She came down as pleasant as ever and held out her hand.
Early in 1853 Mrs Browning became much interested in the reports which reached her many of these from America of the "rapping spirits," who in the 'fifties were busy in instructing chairs and tables to walk in the way they should not go. "You know I am rather a visionary," she wrote to Miss Mitford, "and inclined to knock round at all the doors of the present world to try to get out."
The dramatic genius of Browning was in the main of the static kind; it studies with extraordinary skill and subtlety character in position; it attains only an imperfect or a laboured success with character in movement. The dramatis personae are ready at almost every moment, except the culminating moments of passion, to fall away from action into reflection and self-analysis.
Wish I had yore confidence in the music of the spears workin' out so harmonious." This last was a reference to a book left at the ranch recently by the Reverend Melancthon Browning, the title of which was, "The Music of the Spheres." Its philosophy was that every man makes his own world by the way he thinks about it. Bandy jingled back to his bunk.
"Attempted murder on the high seas is a pretty serious thing." "He'll get pushed for it all right this time," grunted Browning, beginning to recover from his astonishment. Then they talked the affair over, and Frank gave them his theory of Sport's presence on the steamer, which seemed plausible. "This is something rather more interesting than the superstitious man or the Frenchman," said Diamond.
A moment later he stood alone, between the sunlight and the firelight, gazing blankly at the door that hid her from view; and wondering whether he had advanced or retarded matters by his unpremeditated flash of self-revelation. "A turn, and we stand in the heart of things." Browning.
The two met for the first time after these occurrences when Mr. Browning had returned, a widower, from Italy. Mr. Macready, too, had recently lost his wife; and Mr. Browning could only start forward, grasp the hand of his old friend, and in a voice choked with emotion say, 'O Macready!
Browning's affection for him finds utterance in a few strong words which I shall have occasion to quote. An undated fragment concerning him from Mrs. Browning to her sister-in-law, points to a later date than the present, but may as well be inserted here. . . . I quite love M. Milsand for being interested in Penini. What a perfect creature he is, to be sure!
Indeed, as late as 1850, when Wordsworth died, she was seriously considered for the position of poet laureate, which was finally given to Tennyson. A reference to Browning, in "Lady Geraldine's Courtship," is supposed to have first led the poet to write to Miss Barrett in 1845.
He had nothing to urge against Robert Browning. When Mr.
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