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Updated: June 16, 2025
Now don't pity me, my dear Bonpre, -don't pity me! " and he laughed a little huskily as the Cardinal took his hand and pressed it with a silent sympathy more eloquent than words, "We must all die, and if I am to go somewhat sooner than I expected, that is nothing to compassionate me for.
Now that he was a man, he delighted in torturing human beings after the same methods applied mentally, whenever he could find a vulnerable part through which to thrust a sharp spear of pain. "The eminent Cardinal Bonpre!" he mused now; "What is he to me!
So you have not left Paris as soon as you determined?" queried the Abbe with a smile, "I thought you were bound for Florence in haste?" "I go to Florence to-morrow," answered Leigh briefly. "So soon! I am indeed glad not to have missed you," said Cardinal Bonpre cordially. "Angela, my child, let me see what you have been doing.
"Does this boy follow your teaching in the quoting of Scripture with so glib a tongue?" asked Moretti, turning sharply round upon the Cardinal. Bonpre returned his angry look with one of undisturbed serenity. "My son, I have taught him nothing!" he replied, "I have no time as yet and I may add no inclination, to become his instructor. He speaks from his own nature."
Involuntarily Cardinal Bonpre, as he made the usual necessary genuflections, thought, with a shrinking interior sense of horror at the profanity of his own idea, that the Holy Father as he then appeared, might have posed to a painter of allegories, as the frail ghost of a dead Faith.
And turning from him with a movement which implied both hauteur and indifference, he addressed himself to Bonpre, whose face was clouded, and whose eyes were troubled. "The unfortunate affair of our friend Vergniaud will be settled to- day," he began, when the Cardinal raised one hand with a gentle solemnity.
He took her hand and kissed it, then turned to Cardinal Bonpre, who had risen and was gazing round the bare common building with dreamy eyes of wistful wonderment. "I thank you too, my dear friend! You have learned something of my work since we came to London, and I think you understand thoroughly the true sanctity and force of my marriage?" "I do! I do understand it!" said the Cardinal slowly.
But he felt it incumbent upon him to pay a fraternal visit to the Cardinal, who had become in a manner famous without being at all aware of his fame, and when finally in his presence, he was conscious not only of a singular disappointment, but an equally singular perplexity. Felix Bonpre was not at all the sort of personage he had expected to see.
Moretti bent down, as custom forced him to do, under the gently uttered blessing, and the extended thin white hand that signed the cross above him. Then with a furtive under-glance at Manuel, whose quiet and contemplative observation of him greatly vexed and disturbed his composure, he left the room. There was a short silence. Then Abbe Vergniaud, somewhat hesitatingly, approached Bonpre.
"Then he has left for Naples?" said Bonpre, to whom Prince Pietro had read this letter "A sudden departure, is it not?" "Very sudden!" "He will not know what has happened to Angela " "Oh he will be sure to hear that!" said the Prince "To-night it will be in all the newspapers both of Rome and Naples. Angela's light cannot be hidden under a bushel!" "True. Then of course he will return at once."
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