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Updated: June 8, 2025
Well, this poor girl turns out to be a very sweet creature, and my wife, although somewhat annoyed at first by the unexpected gift, and puzzled what to do with her, is now so fond of her, and finds her so gentle as well as useful, that she has set her heart on having Paulina Ruffini that is her name freed and sent home. This, however, is not the point. Paulina has a sister named "
He came well recommended; for their friend Ruffini was then, or soon after, raised to be the head of the University; and the professors were very kind and attentive, possibly to Ruffini's PROTEGE, perhaps also to the first Protestant student. On one point the first Protestant student was moved to thank his stars: that there was no Greek required for the degree.
"What! is this Paulina's sister?" said the consul in surprise, as a pretty bright-eyed girl obeyed the summons. "Speak, fair one," said the Jew. "Dost know of one Paulina Ruffini, and her infant Angelina?"
He even wrote letters for her to copy and sign: an innocent substitution, which may have caused surprise to Ruffini or to Vernon Lee, if they ever received, in the hand of Mrs. Jenkin the very obvious reflections of her husband.
Mazzini lost the friend of his youth, Jacopo Ruffini, and the loss bowed him with a sense of calamity too heavy to be borne. He had to remind himself that sacrifice was needful, and advance the preparations for a new attack under General Ramolino, who had served Napoleon. He was in exile at Geneva, and chose Savoy as the base of operations.
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