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In Pianura the revolutionary agents found a strong republican party headed by Gamba and his friends, and a government weakened by debt and dissensions. The air was thick with intrigue. The little army could no longer be counted on, and a prolonged bread-riot had driven Trescorre out of the ministry and compelled the Duke to appoint Andreoni in his place.
Even the stolid, starved patience of our Norton Bury poor had come to an end at last they had followed the example of many others. There was a bread-riot in the town. God only knows how terrible those "riots" were; when the people rose in desperation, not from some delusion of crazy, blood-thirsty "patriotism," but to get food for themselves, their wives, and children.
When I recovered just a month after the bread-riot, and that month was a great triumph to John's kind care I felt that if I always had him beside me I should never be ill any more; I said as much, in a laughing sort of way. "Very well; I shall keep you to that bargain. Now, sit down; listen to the newspaper, and improve your mind as to what the world is doing.
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