" Dickens is going to Paris for the winter, and Mrs. Butler (he adds) is expected in London. Dear Mr. Kenyon calls me ‘crotchety,’ but Robert ‘an incarnation of the good and the true,’ so that I have everything to thank him for. There are noble people who take the world’s side and make it seem ‘for the nonce’ almost respectable; but he gives up all the talk and fine schemes about money-making, and allows us to wait to see whether we want it or not — the money, I mean. "

― Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning