But this must not be.

I shall forget to give you some sights of Rome if I indulge in vain and foolish regrets.
Really I am at a loss how to convey any idea of such scenes as we are almost daily witnessing.

In the present instance I feel my inability to appreciate what is lofty and inspiring to every cultivated mind.

Often I am inclined to envy those of brilliant intellectual perceptions like yourself.

When the day arrives that you visit the Eternal City will it not be viewed in a different sense than in the present under the ordinary gaze of your short-sighted Rosamond?
Gerald says: "Tell Mary something of the churches," without thinking of the arduous task therein devolved.