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How we shall fare in all this cannot be foreseen. If we do go away I suppose I shall have to leave these notes behind me as papers are not allowed to be taken out of Italy and besides these annotations, modest though they be, may not meet with the approval of what perhaps is no longer our 'Sweet Land of Liberty.'
June 13th It would seem that things are moving fast towards a crisis. In three days time there will be no one to distribute the wheat rations and bread shall be lacking for the people, so says a refugee baker living with my peasants. A revolution will then break out and all private houses sacked for food.
The Baroness looked in on her way up from town. She was terribly excited and her bags were filled with a small packages given to her by the Swiss Consul: powders for disinfecting the water, pastilles against typhus, injections against cholera or other infections that may visit us if the water is cut off or poisoned. Antonio was called in and he explained that we have a private tank of water from the Boboli gardens which can be entirely isolated and which contains sufficient water for a year.
The Baroness told us that she had to cut up the German flag in order to convert it into a Swiss flag (she is Swiss by a defunct husband). The Swiss Consul also gave her several notices to be nailed to her door to the effect that she is

Transcription Notes:
Does "Defunct Husband" mean dead?