That very night a descent was made upon the dwelling of the unconscious _Avocato_.
The sanctity of the connubial chamber was invaded.

The sleeping beauty of fifty was ordered to rise, and was dragged off to--the Convent of Repentant Females! B---- knew, and none better, what manner of thing law was in Rome, so instead of wasting time in reasoning with the Pope as to the legality of the case--urging the argument that, even supposing his wife to have been of a susceptible age and an attractive exterior, so long as he himself made no objection to her driving out with the old Duke, nobody else had any right to interfere--and other similar appeals to common sense, he at once requested the interference of the French Ambassador.

This was promptly and effectively given.

The incarceration of the peccant dame was brief; and a shower of ridicule fell upon the Pontifical head.

But the Sovereigns of Rome are accustomed to, and regardless of, such irreverent demonstrations .-- _TRANSL._ 13: Louis Veuillot, article of the 10th of September, 1849.
14: The principal market in Rome is held in this Piazza.
15: The Basilica of St.Paul without the walls.
16: The rubbio is a measure both of land and of quantity.
17: Monsignore Nicolai was a good practical agriculturist.