She is not blind to the spots on the sun of her adoration, nor does she seek to conceal the fact that there were such spots, but she is a true and loyal worshipper all the same.
Her husband was--alas! that I should write so; for no Indian wife's life was ever more ended by her suttee than Jessie Mario's life has practically been ended by her husband's untimely death!--Alberto Mario was among the, I fear, few exceptions to Peard's remarks on the men who were around Garibaldi.

He was not only a man of large literary culture, a brave soldier, an acute politician, a formidable political adversary, and a man of perfect and incorruptible integrity, but he would have been considered in any country and in any society in Europe a very perfect gentleman.

He was in political opinion a consistent and fearlessly outspoken Republican.

He and I therefore differed _toto coelo_.

But our differences never diminished our, I trust, mutual esteem, nor our friendly intercourse.