Where is a clean man? But for the rest, he has done and spoken worthily--and what is better, we have reason to believe here that the Emperor sympathises with him wholly.
Odo Russell knows the Prince--says that he is 'petillant d'esprit' and has great weight with the Emperor. [_The remainder of this letter is missing_] * * * * * _To Mrs.Martin_ [Rome,] 126 Via Felice: [April 1861]. [My] very dear friends, how am I to thank [you] both? I receive the photograph with a heart running over.
It is perfect.
Never could a likeness be more satisfactory.
It is himself.