At this moment Austria cannot stir anywhere.

Here 'we live, breathe, and have our national being.' Certainly, if Napoleon did what the 'Times' has declared he would do--intervene with armed force against the people, prevent the elections, or _tamper_ with the elections by means of--such means as he was 'familiar' with; if he did these things, I should cry aloud, 'Immoral, vile, a traitor!' But the facts deny all these imputations.

He has walked steadily on along one path, and the development of Italy as a nation is at the end of it.
Of course the first emotion on the subject of the peace was rage as well as grief.

For one day in Florence all his portraits and busts disappeared from the shop windows; and I myself, to Penini's extreme disgust (who insisted on it that his dear Napoleon couldn't do anything wrong, and that the fault was in the telegraph), wouldn't let him wear his Napoleon medal.

Afterwards--as Ferdinando said--'Siamo stati un po' troppo furiosi davvero, signora;' _that_ came to be the general conviction.