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At nightfall I went out into the city to see what 

 was being done, and found Garibaldi's army going off 

 in pursuit of the Neapolitans. My anonymous adviser, 

 who was at my side, urged me to see Mazzini that 

 very night, and arranged to meet me in front of the 

 Palace of the Consulta at one in the morning, at the 

 foot of one of the great statues. I kept the appoint- 

 ment, and he then insisted that I should go up to the 

 first floor of the palace, take off my boots, and steal 

 past the soldiers on duty, who would probably be 

 asleep, and find my way into the room at the further 

 end of the palace, where I should find Mazzini fast 

 asleep. This was rather a hardy and undiplomatic 

 enterprise, but I undertook it, and reached the room 

 where Mazzini was asleep. He had a very handsome 

 face, I thought, as he lay there asleep ; and though 

 he had been exiled from so many States, he was then 

 still a young man. I waited a little to see if he would 

 awake, but as he did not I shouted his name. He 

 jumped up in the bed, looked at me, and said, " Are 

 you come to murder me?" I replied, "No, indeed; 

 if one of us is to murder the other it will not be me. 

 I have been told that you will not act openly with me. 

 I have orders not to treat with you " (in consequence 

 of the diplomatic difficulties which the fact of his 

 being such a downright conspirator might have created 

 for us with other States), " as it would not have done 

 to let the world see that you held the thread of the 

 negotiations I have come here to carry on. You have 



