"_We want_" he answered, "_first, that the Austrians should beat you French thoroughly; next, we want that the Italians should be free, and then we want them to be very grateful to us for doing nothing towards it._" This, concluded Russell, 'sums up the whole question.' Mark, he is very English, but he can't help seeing what lies before him, having quick perceptions, moreover.

Then men have no courage.

Milnes, for instance, keeps his sarcasm for Paris, and in England supports his rifle club and all Parliamentary decencies.
Mind you read 'Blackwood.' Though I was rather vexed by George's letter (he is awfully vexed) I couldn't help laughing at my sister Henrietta, who accepts the interpretation of the 'Athenaeum' (having read the poems) and exclaims, 'But, oh, Ba, such dreadful curses!'...
Mrs.Apthorp has arrived, but I have not seen her nor received the paper.

Pins were right, though I should have liked some smaller.
'Monitores' arrived up at the 12.

Beyond, nothing.