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A month afterwards Marshall announced that he intended to pay a

visit

'I ao with er to accompany him Mrs Caffyn and Mrs

Marshall chose to stay at home

'I shall ask Cohen to come with us,' said Marshall 'He has never

seen Mazzini and would like to know hi, and the party went together to a dull, dark,

little house in a shabby street of small shops and furnished

apartments When they knocked at Mazzini's door Marshall asked for

Mr --- for, even in England, Mazzini had an assumed name which was

always used when inquiries were made for him They were shown

upstairs into a rather mean roo older He had dark hair growing away froularly serious face

It was not the face of a conspirator, but that of a saint, although

without that just perceptible touch of silliness which spoils the

faces of most saints It was the face of a saint of the Reason, of a

man who could be ecstatic for rational ideals, rarest of all