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Poor Victorine, condemned to die a maid, unless some clever surgeon performed the same operation that was undergone by Mdlle. Cheruffini shortly after M. Lepri married her, wept when I said, "My dear child, your little Hymen defies the most vigorous lover to enter his temple." But I consoled her by saying that a good surgeon could easily make a perfect woman of her.

Poor Victorine, condemned to die a maid, unless some clever surgeon performed the same operation that was undergone by Mdlle. Cheruffini shortly after M. Lepri married her, wept when I said, "My dear child, your little Hymen defies the most vigorous lover to enter his temple." But I consoled her by saying that a good surgeon could easily make a perfect woman of her.

I made myself known after the money was changed, and the head cashier treated me with great courtesy. I had bills on this banker for forty thousand Roman crowns, and on Lepri bills for twenty thousand. Rosalie did not want to go to the play again, so I got her a piece of embroidery to amuse her in the evening.

I have sometimes imagined what a story the old white dog who so long frequented the Lepri and the Caffè Greco, and attached himself so capriciously to the brother artists of his deceased master, could have told, if blest with memory and language. He had tasted the freedom and the zest of artist-life in Rome, and scorned to follow trader or king.

He began his pontificate in splendour in 1775, and set to work at once to aggrandise his family, the Braschi. He was a man of rapacious avarice; of this one glaring instance is given. He persuaded, or compelled, a certain Amanzio Lepri to constitute him his heir, and hand over to him the title-deeds of an estate worth many millions of lire.

ROME, PALAZZO LEPRI, VIA DEI CONDOTTI, 27th October, 1848.

The natural heirs of Lepri were greatly annoyed at this, and instituted proceedings before the tribunals, which gave judgment sometimes for them and sometimes for the Pope, and the matter might have dragged on indefinitely, had not public opinion begun to manifest itself with such force that Pius thought it best to agree to a compromise.

We lived several winters in an apartment on the second floor of Palazzo Lepri, Via dei Condotti, where we passed many happy days.

I made myself known after the money was changed, and the head cashier treated me with great courtesy. I had bills on this banker for forty thousand Roman crowns, and on Lepri bills for twenty thousand. Rosalie did not want to go to the play again, so I got her a piece of embroidery to amuse her in the evening.

It was in the possession of Signer Alessandro Curti Lepri, by whose permission Morghen's print was taken. The Head of our Saviour, over the altar of the SS. Annunziata, ordered by the sacristan of the order. A magnificent head, full of grandeur and expression, and very clear in the flesh tints. Empoli made several copies of it.