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entered his room and found him listlessly 

 smoking. " Take cigars, gentlemen," 

 was his instant invitation. Chatting and 

 hesitation on their part followed. " But 

 you. do not proceed to business, gentle- 

 men," said Mazzini. " I believe your in- 

 tention is to kill me." The astounded 

 miscreants fell on their knees, and at 

 length departed with the generous par- 

 don accorded them. 



Mazzini's last years in England were 

 spent at Old Brompton. The modest 

 chambers he occupied in Onslow Ter- 

 race-were strewed with papers and the 

 tables provided with cigars, that friends 

 who called might select their brands and 

 join him. He always kept a cigar burning 

 while he wrote. Canaries flew free about 

 the room. Lord Montairy, in " Lothair," 

 smoked cigars so mild and delicate in 

 flavor that his wife never found him out. 

 Mazzini surely must have had some Mon- 

 tairy cigars, for his canaries did not find 

 him out, or object to him if they did ! 



