[38] From “Days near Rome”
[39] Miss Margaret Foley died Dec. 1877.
[40] Afterwards Lady Compton.
[41] From “Days near Rome.”
[42] From “Days near Rome.”
[43] Perhaps the interest of these details is of the past, but I insert them because the conduct of the Sardinian Government is being rapidly forgotten, and I was at great pains in obtaining accurate statistics and verifying the facts mentioned.
[44] From “Days near Rome.”
[45] Afterwards Duchess of Marino.
[46] Mother of the Duchess S. Arpino.
[47] Shortly before this my publishers had given me a magnificently bound copy of “Walks in Rome,” with the desire that I would present it to Princess Margherita. I demurred to doing this, because, owing to the strictures which the book contains on the “Sardinian Government,” I thought it might be considered little less than an impertinence; but I told the Duchess S. Arpino, who was in waiting at the time, and she repeated it. The amiable Princess said, “I am sorry Mr. Hare does not appreciate us, but I should like my present all the same,” and the book was sent to her.