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The Three Cities Trilogy

PART V
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Moreover, can you call a nation poor, when it possesses Lombardy?
Is there not also inexhaustible wealth in our southern provinces?
Let peace settle down, let the South and the North mingle together, and a new generation of workers grow up.

Since we have the soil, such a fertile soil, the great harvest which is awaited will surely some day sprout and ripen under the burning sun!" Enthusiasm was upbuoying him, all the _furia_ of youth inflamed his eyes.
Pierre smiled, won over; and as soon as he was able to speak, he said: "The problem must be tackled down below, among the people.

You must make men!" "Exactly!" cried Orlando.

"I don't cease repeating it, one must make Italy.

It is as if a wind from the East had blown the seed of humanity, the seed which makes vigorous and powerful nations, elsewhere.


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