In return I will send to your private ear an additional stanza which should interpose as the real _seventh_ but was left out.

I did not send it to you the day after my note, though sorely tempted to do so, because it seemed to me likely to annul any small chance of 'Athenaeum' tolerance which might fall to me.

Would it have done so, do you think?
'A great deed in this world of ours! Unheard of the pretence is.
It plainly threatens the Great Powers; Is fatal in all senses.
A just deed in the world! Call out The rifles! ...

be not slack about The National Defences.' Certainly if I don't guess 'the Sphinx' right, some of your English guessers in the 'Times' and elsewhere fail also, as events prove.

The clever 'Prince-Napoleon-for-Central-Italy' guess,[67] for instance, has just fallen through, by declaration of the 'Moniteur.' Most absurd it was always.