And it is the only subject on which I ever knew her to feel in any degree bitterly.

Many of her verses written during her latter years are fiercely denunciatory or humorously satirical of the Italian priesthood, and especially of the Pontifical Government.

I wish that my space permitted me to give further specimens of them here.

But I must content myself with giving one line, which haunts my memory, and appears to me excessively happy In the accurate truthfulness of its simile.

She is writing of the journey which Pius the Ninth made, and describing his equipment, says that he started "with strings of cheap blessings, like glass beads for savages." With the exception of this strong sentiment my wife was one of the most tolerant people I ever knew.