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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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It was necessary, however, for us all even here, and at Turin just as in Paris, to be ready to disavow him.

The whole good of Central Italy was hazarded by it.

If it had not been success it would have been an evil beyond failure.

The enterprise was forlorner than a forlorn hope.

The hero, if he had perished, would scarcely have been sure of his epitaph even.
And 'intervention' _does_ mean quite a different thing at Naples and in Lombardy.


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