163/222 And it has vexed Austria to the last degree, I am happy to say. It was not allowed to be read here, by the Italian public, I mean. I don't know what may happen; and in the meantime would rather not be pulled and pulled by kind people in England, who want me or fancy they do. You know everybody is as free as I am now, and freer; and if they do want me, and it isn't fancy--never mind! We may see you perhaps, in Paris, after all, this summer.... Hume, my _protege_ prophet, is in Italy. |