. American lands and letters. reck for the literary reputation ofthe author of Paraon Wilbur (and Mr. Lowellrepaid her in kind). On her voyage to Europe (184G) she wasequipped with exuberant letters from Emerson, toCarlyle, Landor, and others; nor was she everabashed, nor did she ever count herself second,in any interview with the cleverest. Established for awhile in Italy, she encountersthere Mrs. Browning, who (in one of her recentlypublished letters) speaks of her as a very agreeableand noticeable person — more enjoyable than herbooks. It Was at Rome, too — in the Avinter of184G-47 that the
. American lands and letters. reck for the literary reputation ofthe author of Paraon Wilbur (and Mr. Lowellrepaid her in kind). On her voyage to Europe (184G) she wasequipped with exuberant letters from Emerson, toCarlyle, Landor, and others; nor was she everabashed, nor did she ever count herself second,in any interview with the cleverest. Established for awhile in Italy, she encountersthere Mrs. Browning, who (in one of her recentlypublished letters) speaks of her as a very agreeableand noticeable person — more enjoyable than herbooks. It Was at Rome, too — in the Avinter of184G-47 that the love experience befell MissFuller, which transmuted the cavilling, eloquent,self-contained conversationalist into the impas- THE OSSOLI MARRIAGE. sioned, warm-hearted, self-denying wife of tlieMarquis Ossoli. This young Koman — manyyears her junior, and attached in some way to thepapal service — was an easy-going, preseiitable,amiable man, not uj)to the level of MissFullers ranges ofphilosophic talk. Wonderful, wrote. Brook Farm, from the Margaret Fuller Cottage. Mrs. Browning, • how such marriages comeabout ! But it did come about, and had swift and fate-ful issues — a romance from start to close. Thisrarely instructed, observant, masculine-minded 182 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. woman — with the half-closed, languorous eyes —had, on some day of fete, lost herself in the aislesof St. Peters, or in the corridors of the her bewilderment she had been offered guid-ance and attendance home by a gracious youngofficial; visitations followed, and a beguiling ac-quaintance, with all the blandishments that be-long to the communings of Eoman doves uponthe lip of a classic vase. Then follows a secret marriage (1847) — familyand political reasons forcing this policy upon theyoung marquis — who has little revenue and thenew marchioness still less ; but there is bravery inher, and the old spirit of resolve ; a humble har-bor for mother and child (September, 1848
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