Nature had the victory.

Three times the King attempted to speak, three times he was obliged to stop, and at last burst into a flood of tears.

The contagion gained all around him.

And it was only interrupted by sobs that he could proceed.

And it is in the face of this despair, when the body of the prince is scarcely cold, that that horrid Thiers and his associates begin afresh their infernal manoeuvres!" A letter of the 3rd April, 1842, contains among a quantity of the gossip of the day an odd story, which, the writer says, "is putting Rome in a ferment, and the clergy in raptures." I think I remember that it made a considerable stir in ecclesiastic circles at the time.
A certain M.Ratisbonne, a Jew, it seems entered a church in Rome (the writer does not say so, but if I remember rightly, it was the "Gesu"), with a friend, a M.de Bussieres, who had some business to transact in the sacristy.