As for me I have caught no cold--only losing my breath and my soul in the usual way, the cough not being much.

So that we have no claim, any of us, on your compassion, you see....
I think, I think Miss Blackwell has succeeded in frightening you a little.

In the case of _chaos_, she will fly to England, I suppose; and even there she may fall on a refugee plot; for I have seen a letter of Mazzini's in which it was written that people stood on ruins in England, and that at any moment there might be a crash! Certainly, confusion in Paris would be followed by confusion in Italy and everywhere on the Continent at least, so I should never think of running away, let what might happen.

In '52 and '53, when we were in Paris, there was more danger than _could_ arise now, under a successful plot even; for, even if the Emperor fell, the people and the army seem prepared to stand by the dynasty.

Also, public order has attained to some of the force of an habitual thing.
As to the crime,[57] it has no more sympathy here than in France--be sure of that.