SD2158. Sarianna Browning to Joseph Milsand
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 347–348 (in part).
151, rue de Grenelle St Gern
May 17th [1858]
My dear Mr Milsand,
So you really thought when you saw my last letter, that I had taken the trouble of writing out of my turn for the express purpose of sending you bad news—certainly, men’s instincts are terribly dull—we women, in common with other inferior animals, have a much more rapid & sure instinctive perception to make up for our defective reasoning faculties. Of course I am indignant at your never guessing my peculiar merits till I had pointed them out myself,—and then in such a tardy, misty way that I am not at all sure you exactly comprehend them now– Seriously, I really believe our Italians will be with us this summer, and I had so completely given up all hopes, that it seems an unexpected pleasure. Truly, as you say, their’s is a singular marriage—if you knew the ills every body foretold when it took place! His friends all declared he must be out of his senses, and I daresay hers said the same on their side. Such a commotion it made! Yet how admirably each suits the other! Did I tell you she said in her last letter, “the fact is, it’s rather depressing for Robert, poor fellow, to be yoked to a lame mare; every fresh stumble making him suppose an approaching overset, though we jog on nevertheless.” He would not exchange his yokefellow, I know, for any other in the universe.
Be sure to tell me when you hear from Mr Darley’s agent– I should have been afraid of trusting him, especially being Irish– It is <***>
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Joseph Milsand Archive.
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