Hunt thought him somewhat less hopeful than he used to be, but improved in health and strength and spirits.

One little touch relating to their last conversation, deserves to be recorded:--"He assented warmly to an opinion I expressed in the cathedral at Pisa, while the organ was playing, that a truly divine religion might yet be established, if charity were really made the principle of it, instead of faith." On the night following that day of rest, Shelley took a postchaise for Leghorn; and early in the afternoon of the next day he set sail, with Williams, on his return voyage to Lerici.

The sailor-boy, Charles Vivian, was their only companion.

Trelawny, who was detained on board the "Bolivar", in the Leghorn harbour, watched them start.

The weather for some time had been unusually hot and dry.