Dared and Done by Julia Markus

Author:Julia Markus [Markus, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-83297-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

It appeared that the son no more than the father liked Popes or Grand Dukes. He was willing to live the way his father died, for the Italian cause. This message was almost worth the annoyance of a return visit by the Kinneys on the actual eve of the Brownings’ departure to the Bagni di Lucca for the summer.

Elizabeth Kinney, who had been a newspaperwoman, kept a journal. She had reservations about Barrett Browning’s looks at first. The great poet appeared older than Mrs. Kinney imagined, her voice weak because of the illness of the lungs. Her idol would have looked younger and more attractive if she exposed her high cheekbones, and wore her strange and unfashionable heavy fingercurls away from her emaciated face. Then the upper part, “her great dark soul eyes,” might predominate even more, keeping one from her overlarge mouth. To this observer, she still had the saving grace, at least, of looking like a poet. The more youthful Browning, the son of a woman with the squarest head in England, had a round head placed squarely on his shoulders. His full head of black hair was laced with gray, as was his beard. He was impulsive and quick in speech, entertaining, as wiry as a cricket. But he had a quality Mrs. Kinney would regret, and others would praise—in the words of Walter Scott’s biographer, he didn’t look like any damned literary man.

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