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Calmed by the shrewd prudence characteristic of his race, the old carpenter made no haste to reply. At last he said, "Well, as for me, brother Tomaso, I should vote against him always against him. And you know very well that we should have the majority. The Pope-king indeed! That's all over. The very Borgo would revolt.
Of this Pierre had a grandiose and tragical vision: he beheld his dream destroyed, his book swept away amidst that cry which spread around him as if flying to the four corners of the Catholic world "/Evviva il Papa-Re! evviva il Papa-Re! Long live the Pope-King!"
Calmed by the shrewd prudence characteristic of his race, the old carpenter made no haste to reply. At last he said, "Well, as for me, brother Tomaso, I should vote against him always against him. And you know very well that we should have the majority. The Pope-king indeed! That's all over. The very Borgo would revolt.
Convinced of the impossibility of favoring the independence and unity of Italy, and remaining at the same time the supreme head of the Universal Church, Pio Nono fled for protection to the King of Naples; there he declined to accept from the King of Piedmont his repeated offers of protection or mediation, and appealed to Austria alone to restore him pope-king absolute in Rome.
Long live the Pope-King!" as the cortege went by the shout rushed along like leaping fire, inflaming heart after heart, and at last springing from every mouth in a thunderous protest against the theft of the states of the Church.
Peter's, when, in presence of the old city of glory so stubbornly clinging to its purple, he had realised that he was an imbecile with his idea of a purely spiritual pope. He had that day fled from the furious shouts of the pilgrims acclaiming the Pope-King. He had only accepted the necessity for money, that last form of servitude still binding the Pope to earth.
CONTENTS TO PART III. VII PRINCE AND PONTIFF The International Pilgrimage The Papal Revenue A Function at St. Peter's The Pope-King The Temporal Power Hopes and Fears of the Papacy
Then, without warning and without hesitation, a shout went up such as has never been heard before in that dim cathedral, nor will, perhaps, be heard again. "Viva il Papa-Rè! Long life to the Pope-King!" At the same instant, as though at a preconcerted signal utterly impossible in such a throng in the twinkling of an eye, the dark crowd was as white as snow.
Let all be given to him, both mankind and the world! "Evviva il Papa-Re! evviva il Papa-Re! Long live the Pope-King!"
Thence sprang the two antagonistic parties, on the one hand the more numerous party composed of the old Carbonari, Mazzinians, and Garibaldians, the elite of the Trastevere; and on the other the "clients" of the Vatican, all who lived on or by the Church and regretted the Pope-King.
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