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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
n and social position. The Marchioness Arconati invited me to meet at her house persons who could tell me about affairs. I found the ladies, grades dames all, engaged in making lint for the hospitals, and most happy that the crisis long desired had at length come. They did not doubt the result. Victory seemed to be already stooping to them; and before them was the beautiful idea of Italy redeemed from the foreigner. It was hoped then to organize a kingdom of Alta Italia, with Piedmont, Lombardy, Venice, Parma, Modena, and Florence, and a population of twelve millions, and a cluster of great cities such as no other country can show,—all vivified by the new influence. . . . Disliking the emperor as I do, I am yet disposed to believe that various circumstances, among which are early education, friendly sympathy for Italy, and a desire to do a generous deed that may make people remember with less bitterness the coup detat,—these and other things conspire for the moment to keep him fai