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and shall then DO stil trusting"
h difficulties In the way OF the lovers were
to some extent financial. for Browning had
never worked for money and Elizabeth Barrett
had only a few hundred pounds a year; but In
the main, they were founded on tho expected
opposition Of her father. and on fears that, In
what seemed likely to be her life long invalid
Ism. she would prove to be even too much OF a
burden for even Brownlng's love to bear. Yet
they drifted into a secret engagement, Hence
forth the letters are those Of accepted lovers.
who had agreed to marry when occasion Of
fered. and Notwithstanding all opposition. But
Elizabeth Barrett's health was so uncertain
that the time OF marriage could not be fore
seen. Letters passed dally-lc'ters OF great
or demonstrativenes s. studded With endear-
ing expressions. but never descending to ba-
rality either on the one side or the other.
First Of all kiss me, denrest-and ngain-and
now with the left arm round you I will wrlte,''
is a typically affectionate opening Of one Of
Browning's letters. Browning's love had given
her q new lease Of life. To It we owe the splen-
did work she did in the succeeding years.
Let us marry soon" Is a phrase from his let
tors that gives the key to his wishes. She was
Of one mind with him In this. though not with
out n certain womanly doubt at times whether
love would survive In all its freshness and
beauty after marriage. Now and again she
lenses him with accounts Of the married state
with others:
Yesterday l heard som delightful matri-
monial details OF an establishment In Re
gents Park. quite like an old pastoral in the
quickness OF the repartee. i hate you'-'I
abhor you'll never liked you'-'I always
detested you A cup and saucer thrown
bodily. here. by the lady On which the gen
tleman upsets her y chair and all = " "
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of mine. gets frightened and begins to cry.
She was invited to the house to be godmother
to their child. and now she Ia pressed to stay
longer to witness the articles OF separation"
The difficulty was. how to marry in secret.
and where to 60 afterward. Elizabeth Barrett
naturally hesltated to incur her fathers dis
pleasure and to bring upon herself his sarcasms
and the surprised reproaches OF other relatives
and friends. But an opportunity OF taking the
final step was found in September, S48 The
household ut Wimpole street was about to re-
move into the country. Browning obtained n
license. and the wedding was secretly held In
Marylebone Church on the morning OF Sept. II.
The wife returnedtoWimpole street. and helet-
ters show that she was there, a bride and none
knowing it, until the Goth. Every one knows
the perfect happiness OF the union. 1t was in
vain that the good Miss Metford. laundering
through ignorance of the situation, denounced
love marriages to Elizabeth Barrett. She as
serts that every marriage. in her experience,
beginning by any sort OF love has ended miser-
ably. It was In vain that she denounced man
In all his varieties. "She told me last autumn
that all men. without exception. are essen
TALLY t~yrants. and that poets are a worse spe-
cies of men. since all human feelings they put
into their verses and leave them there!" She
did not brighten her friend. and the only ap-
p,raDt orfa,t ~ Iar tira1a UaS RI mnka Rrprrn-
ing write forth the most enthusiastic. the most
enrnptured of all his letters. extolling his loves
adorable spirit and her phrases which fall
into my heart and stay there"
THE Sun has already had by cable a brief
account OF the discoveries in the excavations
ut Rome. Signor Bnccelli. the Minister OF Pub
lie Instruction. has n passion for archaeology
In general and the Forum Magnum In par
ticular. The following detailed account Of the
work shows the value Of the finds:
First OF all. below tn. floor OF the Temple of
Vesta four brick walls were discovered lproba-
bly, built in the time OF Hadrianl. which form n
kind OF chamber. Searchers for marble in the
sixteenth century may have spoiled one OF the
walls. The chamber is supposed to have
served as q depository for the ashes Of the
sacred fire. which were taken from the temple
once a year.
In the neighborhood OF the Temple of julius
Caesar the really important discoveries began.
In front Of the Temple was a wall built of
tufd. Between that wall and the hemicycle Of
the front wall of the Temple was found the
core of the base of the honorary column.
which. after CAESARS murder. was set up parent
patriG. This column was built of the marble
known as gallo antiro. The core of the base
is made Of concrete formed with chips Of
giaiI0 dnticO and of gray Carrara marble. Tho
fact OF this base being in concrete seems to
show, according to some archaeological author
tiles. that the fragments now found must be a
reconstruction and not the original one. as
concrete was not used at the time of julius
Caesar. Several fragments Of the reconstructed
Temple OF Julius CRsar have been found
in q retaining wall which forms a kind
OF embankment to that side OF the Forum.
They seem to have been built into the wall
Unfortunately, as were also several pieces
OF the Basilica Emilia. One Of these fragments.
nearly n cubic yard in size, is very finely decor
ated with a bulls skull, or bOucraniOn. Tho
wall. or embankment, in which these blocks
have been found must be made up in great
part OF similarly interesting remains. but ex-
cavations have had to be suspended on account
OF a protest lodged with the Government by
the dwellers in the wretched little houses
which stand on the brow OF the embankment
itself. The only way out of tho difficulty would
be to have money enough to appropriate these
tumble-down buildings and remove them.
Here is n chance for wealthy archGologists to
intervene. buy the wretched novels, and make
n present OF them to the archaeological author
tiles.
Niger Lapis in Comitio locum funcstum
s~ignihcat ut all Romuli mort destinatum,
wrote Festus. the commentator of the writings
OF Flaccus. The Comitium was a kind OF open
air lobby or Sale des Pas Perdus for the Roman
Senate. Near tho Comitium Signor Boni found
a black stone. or rather n pavement Of black
marble. three metres seventy-ave centimetres
by four metres in extent. The slabs OF black
stone are very thick. The pavement itself was
protected by kerb of trGrntinO. or ordinary
Roman stone, and in the fourth orlfth century
a marble fence was erected around the
kerb, which evidently implies that some
tradition OF sanctity hung about the spot. As
the use OF black marble for such purposes is
most unusual. there can scarcely be any doubt
that this black stone Is what was called In the
old days THE Tomb Of Romulus." The origin
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