CHAPTER XIV.
MARGARET'S MARRIAGE.—CHARACTER OF THE MARCHESE OSSOLI.—MARGARET'S FIRST MEETING WITH HIM.—REASONS FOR NOT DIVULGING THE MARRIAGE—AQUILA.—RIETI.—BIRTH OF ANGELO EUGENE OSSOLI.—MARGARET'S RETURN TO ROME.—HER ANXIETY ABOUT HER CHILD.—FLIGHT OF POPE PIUS.—THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY.—THE ROMAN REPUBLIC.—ATTITUDE OF FRANCE.—THE SIEGE OF ROME.—MAZZINI.—PRINCESS BELGIOJOSO.—MARGARET'S CARE OF THE HOSPITALS.
The story of this summer in the mountains Margaret never told, and her letters of the previous winter gave no account of matters' most personal to herself. In continuing the narrative of her life, we are therefore obliged to break through the reserve of the moment, and to speak of events which, though occurring at that time, were not made known to her most intimate friends until a much later period.
Margaret had been privately married for some
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