Ah--there has been much illness in Rome.
Miss Cushman has had an attack, but you would not recognise other names.
We are well, however, Pen like a rose, and Robert still expanding.
Dissipations decidedly agree with Robert, there's no denying that, though he's horribly hypocritical, and 'prefers an evening with me at home,' which has grown to be a kind of dissipation also.
We are in great heart about the war, as if it were a peace, without need of war.

Arabel writes alarmed about our funded money, which we are not likely to lose perhaps, precisely because we are _not_ alarmed.

The subject never occurred to me, in fact.

I was too absorbed in the general question--yes, and am.
So it dawns upon you, Sarianna, that things at Rome and at Naples are not quite what they should be.

A certain English reactionary party would gladly make the Pope a _paratonnerre_ to save Austria, but this won't do.