Browning- My last Duchess

Not having a profession but expressions not used, useful expressions of having an income. In anymore composing a text American today G. is synonym for polite man >> a 'gentlemen's agreement' is a verbal agreement based on respect.

I. Read the following passage from a biography of Robert Browning and do the related exercises.

Formality.

In the autumn of 1844 Mr. Browning set forth for Italy, taking ship, it is believed, direct to Naples.

Not as strong as friendship upper-class > with a proper income.

Here he made the acquaintance of a young Neapolitan gentleman who had spent most of his life in Paris; and they became such good friends that they proceeded to Rome together.

Mr. Scotti was and trying to convince to lower engaging a coach carriage the price.

Invaluable travelling companion, for he engaged their conveyance, and did all such bargaining in his help was important > he knew prices and Italian their joint interest as the habits of his country required.

'As I write,' Mr. Browning said in a letter to his sister, 'I hear him disputing our bill in the next room. He does not see why we should pay for six wax candles when we have used only two.'

At Rome they spent most of their evenings with an old at that time > not yet married acquaintance of Mr. Browning's, then Countess Carducci, and she pronounced Mr. Scotti the referred to men generally or women only if old and not attractive/ synonyms: rich, wealthy, well-off PRETTY used usually for women and for men only if the man is probably GAY.

Handsomest man she had ever seen. He certainly bore no appearance of being the least prosperous. He blew out his brains soon after he and his new friend had parted; and I do not think the act was ever fully accounted for.

Livorno > no longer familiar in Eng. because at that time was an important port.

It must have been on his return journey that Mr. Browning went to Leghorn to see Edward John they had not yet met with each other > a mutual friend introduced them = meeting Trelawney, to whom he carried a letter of introduction.

He described the interview long afterwards to Mr. Val Prinsep, but chiefly in his impressions of the cool courage which Mr. Trelawney had displayed during its course.

A surgeon was occupied all the time in probing his leg for a bullet recently after lots of time it hurted which had been lodged there some years before, and had lately made itself felt; and he showed himself absolutely indifferent to the pain of the operation.

Mr. Browning's main object in paying the as a poet visit had been, naturally, to speak with one who had known Byron and been the last to see Shelley importance of details > to prove earnestness of the writer > she couldn't be