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Life and Letters of Robert Browning-Part24_Mrs.Sutherland Orr(1828-1903)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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Rossetti began painting his portrait, which he finished in Paris

in the ensuing winter.



The winter of 1852-3 saw the family once more in Florence, and at Casa Guidi,

where the routine of quiet days was resumed. Mrs. Browning has spoken



in more than one of her letters of the comparative social seclusion in which

she and her husband had elected to live. This seclusion was much modified



in later years, and many well-known English and American names

become associated with their daily life. It referred indeed almost entirely



to their residence in Florence, where they found less inducement

to enter into society than in London, Paris, and Rome.



But it is on record that during the fifteen years of his married life,

Mr. Browning never dined away from home, except on one occasion --



an exception proving the rule; and we cannot therefore be surprised

that he should subsequently have carried into the experience



of an unshackled and very interesting social intercourse,

a kind of freshness which a man of fifty has not generally preserved.



The one excitement which presented itself in the early months of 1853

was the production of `Colombe's Birthday'. The first allusion to this



comes to us in a letter from the poet to Lady, then Mrs. Theodore, Martin,

from which I quote a few passages.



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Florence: Jan. 31, '53.



`My dear Mrs. Martin, -- . . . be assured that I, for my part, have been

in no danger of forgetting my promises any more than your performances --



which were admirable of all kinds. I shall be delighted

if you can do anything for "Colombe" -- do what you think best with it,



and for me -- it will be pleasant to be in such hands --

only, pray follow the corrections in the last edition --



(Chapman and Hall will give you a copy) -- as they are important to the sense.

As for the condensation into three acts -- I shall leave that,



and all cuttings and the like, to your own judgment -- and, come what will,

I shall have to be grateful to you, as before. For the rest,



you will play the part to heart's content, I KNOW . . . And how good

it will be to see you again, and make my wife see you too -- she who



"never saw a great actress" she says -- unless it was Dejazet! . . .'

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Mrs. Browning writes about the performance, April 12:

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`. . . I am beginning to be anxious about `Colombe's Birthday'.

I care much more about it than Robert does. He says that no one



will mistake it for his speculation; it's Mr. Buckstone's affair altogether.

True -- but I should like it to succeed, being Robert's play, notwithstanding.



But the play is subtle and refined for pits and galleries.

I am nervous about it. On the other hand, those theatrical people



ought to know, -- and what in the world made them select it,

if it is not likely to answer their purpose? By the way,



a dreadful rumour reaches us of its having been "prepared for the stage

by the author." Don't believe a word of it. Robert just said "yes"



when they wrote to ask him, and not a line of communication has passed since.

He has prepared nothing at all, suggested nothing, modified nothing.



He referred them to his new edition, and that was the whole. . . .'

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She communicates the result in May:

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`. . . Yes, Robert's play succeeded, but there could be no "run"




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