Oh, I shall cry aloud and boast, since people choose to abuse me.

Did you see how I was treated in 'Blackwood'?
In fact, you and all women, though you hated me, should be vexed on your own accounts.

As for me, it's only what I expected, and I have had that deep satisfaction of 'speaking though I died for it,' which we are all apt to aspire to now and then.

Do you know I was half inclined to send my little book to Mr.Cobden, and then I drew back into my shell, with native snail-shyness.
We remain here till the end of May, when we remove back to Florence.
Meanwhile I am in great anxiety about Sicily.

Garibaldi's hardy enterprise may be followed by difficult complications.
Let us talk away from politics, which set my heart beating uncomfortably, and don't particularly amuse you....
Have you read the 'Mill on the Floss,' and what of it?
The author is here, they say, with her elective affinity, and is seen on the Corso walking, or in the Vatican musing.