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What I Remember, Volume 2

CHAPTER XIII
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It is entirely and accurately true.

And there was no man in existence more fitted by native integrity and hatred of dishonesty on the one hand, and close intimacy with the subject of his remarks on the other, to speak authoritatively on the matter than "Garibaldi's Englishman." The following letter, written, as will be seen, on the eve of his departure for the celebrated expedition to Sicily, is also interesting.

It is dated Genoa.
* * * * * "DEAR MRS.

TROLLOPE,--I have been thinking over your observations about _terno_.

I don't give up my translation; but would it not be literal enough to translate it, 'the bravest three colours'?
[This refers to the rendering of the lottery phrase _terno_ in a translation by my wife of the _stornello_ of Dall' Ongaro previously mentioned.


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