“And be forgiven” .. yes! and be thanked besides-if I knew how to thank you worthily & as I feel .. only that I do not know it, & cannot say it. And it was not indeed “doubt” of you (.. oh no!-) that made me write as I did write: it was rather because I felt you to be surely noblest, .. & therefore fitly dearest, … that it seemed to me detestable & intolerable to leave you on this road where the mud must splash up against you, & never cry ‘gare.’ Yet I was quite enough unhappy yesterday, & before yesterday .. I will confess today, .. to be too gratefully glad to ‘let you be’ .. to “let you have your way” .. you who overcome always!
[23 October 1845]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.
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1845-10-23
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Browning, Robert
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“And be forgiven” .. yes! and be thanked besides-if I knew how to thank you worthily & as I feel .. only that I do not know it, & cannot say it. And it was not indeed “doubt” of you (.. oh no!-) that made me write as I did write: it was rather because I felt you to be surely noblest, .. & therefore fitly dearest, … that it seemed to me detestable & intolerable to leave you on this road where the mud must splash up against you, & never cry ‘gare.’ Yet I was quite enough unhappy yesterday, & before yesterday .. I will confess today, .. to be too gratefully glad to ‘let you be’ .. to “let you have your way” .. you who overcome always!