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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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I do not doubt that it will be consulted.

Meantime there is too much haste, I think.

There is a haste somewhat indelicate in the introduction of French garrisons into Savoy, previous to the popular conclusion being known.

There should have been mixed garrisons, French and Piedmontese, till the vote was taken.

Napoleon should have been more particular in Savoy than he was even in central Italy, as to the advance of any occasion of the current charge of 'pressure.' Altogether the subject is an anxious one--would be, even if less rancorous violence on the part of his enemies were wreaked upon it.


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