And when he came to England, not to plead the cause of Italy but the cause of Denmark, the Italian found he was more popular with the English than any Englishman.

He made his way through a forest of salutations, which would willingly have turned itself into a forest of swords.

But those who kept the sword kept it sheathed.

For the ruling class the valour of the Italian hero, like the beauty of the Danish Princess, was a thing to be admired, that is enjoyed, like a novel--or a newspaper.

Palmerston was the very type of Pacifism, because he was the very type of Jingoism.