No one can say he has not chosen the right path.

A finance minister, if he knows anything of his business, can lay by more money in six months than all the brigands of Sonnino in twenty years.
Under Gregory XVI.

he had been a reactionist, to please his sovereign.
On the accession of Pius IX., for the same reason, he professed liberal ideas.

A red hat and a ministerial portfolio were the recompense of his new convictions, and proved to the inhabitants of Sonnino that liberalism itself is more lucrative than brigandage.

What a practical lesson for those mountaineers! One of themselves clothed in purple and fine linen, actually riding in his gilt coach, passed the barracks, and their old friends the dragoons presenting arms, instead of firing long shots at him! He obtained the same influence over the new Pope that he had over the old one, thus proving that people may be got hold of without stopping them on the highway.