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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER X
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It is I who have the true fever--in my brain and heart.

I am chiefly frightened lest Austria yield on unimportant points to secure the vital ones; and Louis Napoleon, with Germany and England against him, is in a very hard position.

God save us all! Massimo d' Azeglio[62] has done us the real honor of coming to see us, and seldom have I, for one, been more gratified.

A noble chivalrous head, and that largeness of the political _morale_ which I find nowhere among statesmen, except in the head of the French Government.

Azeglio spoke bitterly of English policy, stigmatised it as belonging to a past age, the rags of old traditions.


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