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"Do so, but you must at the same time fulfil some commissions which I give you for the journey." So they parted. Two years had passed, when, one day in January, Pope Silvester was summoned to Paterno, the little castle on Soracte, where the Roman-German Emperor dwelt, and now lay ill. When Silvester entered the sick-room, the Emperor sat upright, but looked troubled.
The holy Roman-German emperor was converted into an emperor of Austria, the electors into kings or granddukes, all of whom enjoyed unlimited sovereign power and were free from subjection to the supremacy of the emperor. Every bond of union was dissolved with the diet of the empire and with the imperial chamber.
"There is still a Pope, then?" "Oh! yes, although one of them has just died." "And what does the Hohenzollern want in Rome?" "No one knows; some say that it is his ambition to become Roman-German emperor of the Evangelical Confession." "A syncretistic emperor dreamt of by John George of Saxony! I don't want to hear anymore. The ways of Providence are strange, and we mortals, what are we?
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