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There are so few. For the rest, the Prince would have been a popular and natural choice at one time, and as far as central Italy was concerned.
Also he is very liberal in opinion, and full of ideas, I have been told. But the fusion is a wiser step _now,_ and altogether--even if we could spare the Emperor's fame.
Do you remember the obloquy he suffered for Neufchatel? and how it came out that, if he pressed his conditions, it was simply because he meant to fight for the independence of the State? and how at last the Swiss delegates went to Paris to offer their gratitude for the deliverance he had attained for the people? His loyalty will come out clean before the eyes of his enemies now as then. We agree absolutely.
And Robert does not dissent, I think.
Facts begin to be conclusive to him. You are an angel, dearest Isa, with the tact of a woman of the world. This in reference to the note you sent me, and your answer.
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