William Wetmore Story And His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, And Recollections
William Wetmore Story And His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, And Recollections
James Henry
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Oh, (Louis) Napoleon ! do we really differ so thoroughly about him after all? No understanding comes out of talk on such questions, because one presses to the support of the weaker points — not necessarily untenable, but weak ; and the end is these seem the argument. But I never answer for what any man may do, if I try and appreciate what he has done ; my opinion of the solid good rendered years ago is unchanged. The subsequent 140 THE CLEOPATRA AND THE LIBYAN SIBYL deference to the clerical pa...rty in France and support of brigandage is poor work, but it surely is doing little harm to the general good. As for the party of action one sees the main chance tolerably clear from this distance : Austria is uncommonly strong just now, and if Italy attacks her without France to help she will rue it, that's too likely. . . . Well, two of my English years have slipped away. If I live (and I am particu- larly well) I shall have plenty of Italy yet. I bring out two volumes of new things (*Men and Women'), but under some other name to please the publisher." To Siena still, and doubtless longingly enough, went the following; with its visible reflection, however, in spite of all longings, of the form already more or less taken by the writer's London life — a life henceforth of multiplied contacts and impressions, " social " activities.
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