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16 BIANCA MILESI MOJON.
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In Appropriating To Our Own Pages The Fo...
countries ? Tlie Viennese are very courteous , but etiquette deprives the social relations of all freedom . "
" January 16 . —We have arrived on the borders of the Danube .. Hungary reckons about 10000000 inhabitants ; of these , 160 , 000
are nobles , who pay no taxes , , who , alone have the right to possess landand who alone are considered persons—all the rest are but
things , . Here the peasant cannot appear in a court of justice ; he must berepresented bhis lord . If he has a complaint against
his master , it must be y carried . before the Coniitewhich is composed of nobles , and which almost invariably inflicts , the bastinado
, upon " Dresden the comp . — lain I have ant . " been compelled to keep my room , and have 1 ht lanned
been sufferingseverely . During my sleepless nigI p several reformswhich I shall carry into execution when I return to
during Italy . my In the morning first , p 's lace occupation , I will refuse . I will all receive visits , without but three excep or t four ion ,
persons " Secondl each day I will . At stay four at home o ' clock at least I will three walk evenings for half an in the hour week .
that I may y not , lose the faculty of living alone , and may teach others to visit me from choice rather than habit , if indeed I am
worthy of such a favor . I shall have no reason to regret the visitors I lose by this regulation . mother to the and will
out make " Thirdl every projects y thing , I Trill I subordinate must go with obtain my to my her mother happ ' iness s approbation . country In order ; . to Sh I c all arry I ,
my myself These , have extracts the courage from the to diary persevere of a ? young I hop woman e so . " * under thirty ,
certainly show a very lively , eager mind , and much earnestness . We next find her burning her fingers with politics . Her Swiss
tour had made her more than ever alive to the advantages of freedomand more than ever deplore the enslaved condition of her own
country Charle , s . Albert This himself was an was epoch involved of great in the hopes invisible with network the Italians of con- .
friends spiracy and extending relatives over were the compromised whole peninsula in the . noble Signora cause Milesi , and 's
Biancawith characteristic zeal , co-operated with them . A suspishe cious she was was letter _, arrested saved , bearing from ; but prison her , thanks si , gnature and to merel the , being interposition y restricted intercepted to of her Madame contrived by owii the police apart Verri her - , ,
ment . Her motherin concert with Madame Verri , _escajDe , and she fled , from Milan to Geneva , disguised as the maid of her noble friendwho had obtained leave of absence .
_" But Bianca was , in a state of mind to support greater trials ments than Au of strian her heart persecution were at or last a forced awakened exile " . says The her tenderest biograp senti her - ;
and we hear no more of resolutions to wed , wj . th art alone . During Pisano a journey one she of had tile made to irators Genoa she in met behalf Dr of . Moj her on brother , who - ranked in-law , consp
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16 Bianca Milesi Mojon.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/16/
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