Think of that man following us to Siena, uninvited, and attending me at the hotel two days, then refusing recompense.
Well, now let me speak of our Italy and the peace.

'Immoral,' you say?
Yes, immoral.

But not immoral on the part of Napoleon who had his hand forced; only immoral on the part of those who by infamies of speech and intrigue (in England and Germany), against which I for one had been protesting for months, brought about the complicated results which forced his hand.

Never was a greater or more disinterested deed intended and almost completed than this French intervention for Italian independence; and never was a baser and more hideous sight than the league against it of the nations.

Let me not speak.
For the rest, if it were not for Venetia (Zurich[65] keeps its secrets so far) the peace would have proved a benefit rather than otherwise.