Out came the portraits again in the sun, and the Emperor's bust, side by side with Victor Emanuel's, adorns the room of our 'General Assembly.' There are individuals, of course, who think that through whatever amount of difficulty and complication, he should have preserved his first programme.

But these are not the wiser thinkers.

He had to judge for France as well as for Italy.

As Mr.Trollope said to me in almost the first fever, 'It is upon the cards that he has acted in the wisest and most conscientious manner possible for all,--or it is on the cards etc.' The difficulty now is at Naples.
There will be a Congress, of course.

A Congress was in the first programme; after the war, a Congress.
But, dearest Mona Nina, if you want to get calumniated, hated, lied upon, and spat upon (in a spiritual sense), try and do a good deed from disinterested motives in this world.