The consequences of which will be that there must be another vote in Tuscany, by which Prince Napoleon will be elected; and we, having acknowledged the first vote, must acknowledge the second.' Of course I protested; disbelieved in the forbidding, and believed in the accepting.

He 'hoped it might be so'-- in the civil way with which people put away preposterous opinions--and left us on Saturday night at ten, just too late to hear of the 'fait accompli.' Out of all _that_, I rescue my fact that _Napoleon made the English Government acknowledge the Tuscan vote_.
Don't let Kate put any of this into American papers, because Mr.Russell was our guest, observe, and spoke trustingly to us.

He had just arrived from England, and went on to Rome without further delay.
The word _Venice_ makes my heart beat.

Has Guiducci any grounds for hope about Venice?
If Austria could be _bought_ off at any price! Something has evidently been promised at Villafranca on the subject of Venice; and evidently the late strengthening of the hands of Piedmont will render the Austrian occupation on any terms more and more difficult and precarious.
I should agree with you on Prince Napoleon, if it were not that I want the Emperor's disinterestedness to remain in its high place.

We can't spare great men and great deeds out of the honour of the world.