It was not yet twelve o’clock. There was still time for Captain Maynard to catch the night mail; and by it he returned to London.
Chapter Fifty Two.
The Illustrious Exile.
The revolutionary era had ended; tranquillity was restored; and peace reigned throughout Europe.
But it was a peace secured by chains, and supported by bayonets.
Manin was dead, Hecker an exile in transatlantic lands, Blum had been murdered—as also a score of other distinguished revolutionary leaders.
But there were two still surviving, whose names caused uneasiness to despotism from the Baltic to the Mediterranean—from the Euxine to the Atlantic.