As for Isabel's boys--" "God be blessed! Isabel's boys are entirely charming.

They have been corrected at my own knee.

There are not more beautifully behaved boys in the christened world." "And Antonia's little Christina ?" "She is already an angel.

Ah, Roberto! If I had only died when I was as innocent as that dear one!" "I am thankful you did not die, Maria.

How dark my life would have been without you!" "Beloved, then I am glad I am not in the kingdom of heaven; though, if one dies like Christina, one escapes purgatory.