The worship was, of course, all the more absorbing that the object of it was unique.

I take it that, after the birth of her child, I came second in her heart.

But I was not jealous of little Bice.
I do not think that she would have quite subscribed to the opinion of Garibaldi on the subject of the priesthood, which I mentioned in a former chapter--that they ought all to be forthwith put to death.

But all her feelings and opinions were bitterly antagonistic to them.

She was so deeply convinced of the magnitude of the evil inflicted by them and their Church on the character of the Italians, for whom she ever felt a great affection, that she was bitter on the subject.