The travellers in the restoring line, who used to flock to Gaeta and Portici, carried off a great number of them in their bags; what they left are in the casket of the young Countess Ferretti.
The character of this respectable old man, is made up of devotion, simplicity, vanity, weakness, and obstinacy, with an occasional touch of rancour.

He blesses with unction, and pardons with difficulty; he is a good priest, and an insufficient king.
His intellect, which has raised such great hopes, and caused such cruel disappointment, is of a very ordinary capacity.

I can hardly think he is infallible in temporal matters.

His education is that of the average of cardinals in general.

He talks French pretty well.
The Romans formed an exaggerated opinion of him at his accession, and have done so ever since.