"As for the drinking, again thanks be to God, it was not as they say, nor as Fr. De Marchi wrote in the first edition of his book, A Lady More Brilliant than the Sun. If my father did sometimes drink a little more than those who drank nothing, he never carried it to the point of creating disorder at home, nor of ill treating his wife and children..."
—Lucia's Fifth MemoirArchived 30 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, entire text online, page found 6 June 2011.
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"As for the drinking, again thanks be to God, it was not as they say, nor as Fr. De Marchi wrote in the first edition of his book, A Lady More Brilliant than the Sun. If my father did sometimes drink a little more than those who drank nothing, he never carried it to the point of creating disorder at home, nor of ill treating his wife and children..."
—Lucia's Fifth MemoirArchived 30 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, entire text online, page found 6 June 2011.