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opened the way for Victor Emanuel and a more sound liberalism in 1859.
We attended service at the Sistine Chapel yesterday in company with two young ladies from Philadelphia, who wore long black veils so that Pius IX.
might not catch the least glimpse of their pretty faces.
I was disappointed in my hope of obtaining a view of the Pope's face.
Cardinal Bonaparte sat just in front of us, a man well worth observing.
He looks to be the ablest living member of that family, and bears a decided resemblance to the old Napoleon.
His features are strong, his eyes keen, and he wears his red cap in a jaunty manner on the side of his head.
When the blessing was passed around the conclave of Cardinals, Bonaparte transferred it to his next neighbor as if he meant to put it through him. It is supposed that he will be the successor of Pius IX.; but, as Rev. Samuel Longfellow says, that will depend very much upon whether Louis Napoleon is alive at the time of the election.
The singing in the Sistine Chapel is not worth listening to, besides having unpleasant associations; so during the service we had an excellent opportunity to study Michael Angelo's Last Judgment — for there was nothing else to be done.
Kugler considers the picture an inharmonious composition, and that nothing could be more
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