Note 26 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
The word her Italian tutor meant to describe her by, but could not pronounce it. He said she was testa lunga (Letters of R. and E.B., i. 7). [27] Letters, R. and E.B., i. 8. Cf. her admirable letter to Ruskin, ten years later, apropos of the charge of "affectation." "To say a thing faintly, because saying it strongly sounds odd or obscure or unattractive for some reason to careless readers, does appear to me bad policy as well as bad art" (Letters of E.B.B., ii., 200).