Ah but the good things do not come together-for just as your letter comes I am driven to asking you to leave tuesday for wednesday.
On tuesday Mr Kenyon is to be here or not to be here, he says-there’s a doubt .. & you would rather go to a clear day. So if you do not hear from me again I shall expect you on wednesday unless I hear to the contrary from you:-and if anything happens to wednesday you shall hear. Mr Kenyon is in town for only two days, or three. I never could grumble against him, so good & kind as he is:-but he may not come after all tomorrow-so it is not grudging the obolus to Belisarius, .. but the squandering of the last golden days at the bottom of the purse.
Do I ‘stand’- Do I walk? Yes-most
[6 October 1845]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.
Date - Search
1845-10-06
Author
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Recipient
Browning, Robert
Letter Text
Ah but the good things do not come together-for just as your letter comes I am driven to asking you to leave tuesday for wednesday.
On tuesday Mr Kenyon is to be here or not to be here, he says-there’s a doubt .. & you would rather go to a clear day. So if you do not hear from me again I shall expect you on wednesday unless I hear to the contrary from you:-and if anything happens to wednesday you shall hear. Mr Kenyon is in town for only two days, or three. I never could grumble against him, so good & kind as he is:-but he may not come after all tomorrow-so it is not grudging the obolus to Belisarius, .. but the squandering of the last golden days at the bottom of the purse.
Do I ‘stand’- Do I walk? Yes-most