Popes, without knowing it. Of all the greatest Popes he cries,
'Surely, they must have had Irish blood.' He's perfectly
convinced that Pius the Ninth was Irish. His very name, his
family-name, Ferretti, was merely the Irish name, Farrity,
Italianised, the good bishop says. No one but an Irishman, he
insists, could have been so witty."

Mrs. O'Donovan Florence looked intensely thoughtful for a
moment . . . . Then, "I 'm trying to think of the original
Irish form of Udeschini," she declared.

At which there was a general laugh.

"When you say 'soon,' Eminence, do you mean that we may hope to
see the Italians driven from Rome in our time?" enquired Madame
de Lafere.

"They are on the verge of bankruptcy--for their sins," the
Cardinal answered. "When the crash comes--and it can't fail to
come before many years--there will necessarily be a
readjustment. I do not believe that the conscience of
Christendom will again allow Peter to be deprived of his
inheritance."

"God hasten the good day," said Monsignor Langshawe.

"If I can live to see Rome restored to the Pope, I shall die
content, even though I cannot live to see France restored to
the King," said the old Frenchwoman.