In Defence of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain
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Bracknell."
The white-haired Maimuna presently writes to Hogg: "I will not have you despise home-spun pleasures. Shelley is making a trial of them with us--" A trial of them. It may be called that. It was March 11, and he had been in the house a month. She continues: Shelley "likes then so well that he is resolved to leave off rambling--" But he has already left it off. He has been there a month. "And begin a course of them himself." But he has already begun it. He has been at it a month. He likes it so well that he has forgotten all about his wife, as a letter of his reveals. "Seriously, I think his mind and body want rest." Yet he has been resting both for a month, with Italian, and tea, and manna of sentiment, and late hours, and every restful thing a young husband could need for the refreshment of weary limbs and a sore conscience, and a nagging sense of shabbiness and treachery. "His journeys after what he has never found have racked his purse and his tranquillity. He is resolved to take a little |
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