However, all resemblance between _Rome_ and the _Ironmaster_ is confined to this one point .-- Trans.
Ever since that marriage, which he had borne like a bereavement, the young man had been travelling in France.

She did not hide the truth from him, but wrote to him, again vowing that she would never be another's.
And meantime her piety increased, her resolve to reserve herself for the lover she had chosen mingled in her mind with constancy of religious faith.

The ardent heart of a great _amorosa_ had ignited within her, she was ready for martyrdom for faith's sake.

And when her despairing mother with clasped hands entreated her to resign herself to her conjugal duties, she replied that she owed no duties, since she had known nothing when she married.

Moreover, the times were changing; the attempts to reconcile the Quirinal and the Vatican had failed, so completely, indeed, that the newspapers of the rival parties had, with renewed violence, resumed their campaign of mutual insult and outrage; and thus that triumphal marriage, to which every one had contributed as to a pledge of peace, crumbled amid the general smash-up, became but a ruin the more added to so many others.
Ernesta died of it.