"Oh, let him pass! he hates him much
That would upon the rack of this rough world
Stretch him out longer."—King Lear.
[240] From "Northern Italy."
[241] Adèle, Madame Davidoff. See pp. 65, 115.
[242] From "South-Eastern France."
[243] The Venerable Gaspare del Bufalo, to whose influence the foundation of the Order of the Precious Blood was due.
[244] Don Giovanni Merlini of the Crociferi.
[245] Mary Pierina Roleston, Superior of the Order of the Precious Blood in England.
[246] Alas! after the Sardinian occupation of Rome, the Soras, then Prince and Princess Piombino, were induced to sell all the grounds of Villa Ludovisi, the noblest ornament of Rome; its magnificent groves of ilex and cypress were cut down, and hideous stucco houses built over its site.
[247] Lady Wenlock died May 1868.
[248] "The Remains of Mrs. Richard Trench," by her son Richard Chevenix Trench, Dean of Westminster, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.