SD2372. Emily Southwood Hill to Miranda Hill
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 349.
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April 15th, 1860.
… O. asked him if he had read Mrs. Browning’s new poems. He called them beautiful but absurd. O. said, “Why absurd? Because she trusts Louis Napoleon?” “No,” he said; “I hold it is right to trust a man till he does something which proves him wrong. But mind, you’re not to say I’m wrong if he turns out treacherous.”
Text: Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters, ed. C. Edmund Maurice (London, 1913), p. 179.
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