So far, I cannot help persisting in certain of my views, because they have been held long enough to be justified by the past on many points.

The intervention in Italy, while it overwhelmed with joy, did not dazzle me into doubts of the motive of it, but satisfied a patient expectation and fulfilled a logical inference.

Thus it did not present itself to my mind as a caprice of power, to be followed perhaps by an onslaught on Belgium, and an invasion of England.

These things were out of the beat; and _are_.

There may follow Hungarian, Polish, or other questions--but there won't follow an English question unless the English _make_ it, which, I grieve to think, looks every day less impossible.
Dear Mr.F., have you read 'La Foi des Traites,' written, some of it, by L.N.'s own hand?
Do you consider About's 'Carte de l'Europe' (as the 'Times' does) 'a dull _jeu d'esprit_'?
The wit isn't dull, and the serious intention, hid in those mummy wrappings, is not inauthentic.
Official--certainly not; but Napoleonic--yes.