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"The subject cannot be discussed," he said, in quick, hard tones, "because the Abbot of Nervessa hath committed crimes so atrocious that thou would'st shrink at the bare naming of them.
"They were talking of the Abbot of Nervessa and of his Holiness, and when I came they rose to do me honor; and I also, to be not lacking in courtesy, said, 'Le prego, Signori I beg of you, and bade them continue the talk in which they had seemed full of interest. Marco, in the Senate do they know that the Pope is angry about the Abbot of Nervessa?"
"Well, then," he consented ungraciously, "what is it thou wouldst ask?" She laughed at his reluctance, pressing her hand with a firmer and yet more loving touch on his shoulder. "Because I am a Giustinian," she began, with a plea which invariably won him, "tell me about this question of Vicenza which occupies them all so much I could not understand. Who is this Abbott of Nervessa?"
The real concession the only one was in the case of the ecclesiastical prisoners the Abbot of Nervessa and the Canon of Vicenza whom his Holiness persisted in claiming.
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