In which he was perfectly right, of course, only that people should see where their road goes even when they walk straight.

And mark, if France had herself prevented Garibaldi's landing, Lord John would simply have 'protested.' _He said so._ France might have done it without the least inconvenience, therefore, and she _did not_.

She confined herself to observing that if V.E._might_ have Naples, he _must_ have Venice, and that there could be no good in objecting to logical necessities of accepted situations.

In spite of which, every sort of weight was hung on the arms of France that no aid should be given for Venetia.

Certain things written to Austria, and uttered through Lord Cowley, I can't forgive Lord John for; my heart does not warm, except with rage.