"Yes; she read it in the English journals, and being pregnant and unwell, it occasioned her to faint, which was attributed to an article headed 'Atrocious Murder,' on which the marchese determined that no more things of that description should enter the house. When better, she told me 'it consoled her that you had married a cousin, who resembled her, in your opinion, she knew.'"
Before Glentworth left Rome, a short note, as from a dying woman, was placed in his hand, confirmatory of her desire to see him, but despairing as to the possibility. It ended with these words,—"I fear we have both been mistaken in supposing that hearts bound together as ours were during the best years of existence could permit us any happiness in another union, but you, as belonging to the world, may one day find it, more especially when I am gone; and you can devote your whole heart to your wedded wife. Oh! that I knew her, that I could infuse into her my heart, imbue her with my imagination, and render her the girl you loved so dearly, and who was, alas! who is, your loving
"Margarite."
