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And as for Cardinal Bonpre, he went at once to Rome with his niece, the famous painter, Angela Sovrani, I imagine he may have interceded with the Pope, or tried to do so for the Abbe, but whatever happened, there they are now, for all I know to the contrary.
Paul," answered Bonpre quietly "He was a gifted and clever man, but he was a Man he was not God-in-Man. Christ's doctrine leaves no place for differing sects; St. Paul's method of applying that doctrine serves as authority for the establishment of any and every quarrelsome sect ever known!" "I cannot agree with you," said the Archbishop coldly.
Vergniaud heard, and gave one swift glance at Cardinal Bonpre who, though startled by the rapidity and excitement of the scene that had occurred, was equal to the occasion, and understood his friend's appeal at once, even before he said hurriedly, "Monseigneur! Tell them to let him go! or bring him face to face with me!"
Eighteen hundred years of Christian teaching have not eradicated these ingrained sins from any one unit of the entire mass." "You are a severe judge!" said the Archbishop. Cardinal Bonpre lifted his mild blue eyes protestingly. "Severe? I? God forbid that I should be severe, or presume to sit in judgment on any poor soul that sought my sympathy! I do not judge, I simply feel.
"I hope the Abbe will go away at once," she said meditatively, "But you have no idea how happy and at ease he is! He seems to be ready for anything." "What does Cardinal Bonpre think?" asked the Princesse. "My uncle never thinks in any way except the way of Christ," replied Angela. "He says, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee; arise and walk', to every soul stricken with the palsy of pain and repentance.
He had opened the conversation by the usual cordial trivialities of ordinary greeting, to which Bonpre had responded with the suave courtesy and refined gentleness which always dignified his manner, and then the Archbishop had ventured to offer a remonstrance on the unconventional "Shall we call it eccentric?" he suggested, smiling amicably, conduct of the Cardinal in choosing to abide in such a comfortless lodging as the Hotel Poitiers.
The saintly life and noble deeds of Felix Bonpre had reached him from time to time through various rumours repeated by different priests and dignitaries of the Church, who had travelled as far as the distant little Cathedral-town embowered among towering pines and elm trees, where the Cardinal had his abiding seat of duty; and he had been anxious to meet the man who in these days of fastidious feeding and luxurious living, had managed to gain such a holy reputation as to be almost canonized in some folks' estimation before he was dead.
She laughed, and her eyes twinkled maliciously, then she went on, "Do you know he is quite a delightful boy, the peasant son and assassin? I think of taking him to my Chateau and making something of him. I waited to see the whole play out, and bring you the news. Papa Vergniaud has gone home with his good-looking offspring then Cardinal Bonpre do you know the Cardinal Bonpre?"
"You must not bring every line of discussion to a pin's point," said Bonpre smiling, as he walked slowly across the room still leaning on the Abbe's arm. "We can reduce our very selves to the bodiless condition of a dream if we take sufficient pains first to advance a theory, and then to wear it threadbare.
I will leave them with you. It is perhaps the judgment of Heaven on the Sovrani's uncle, Cardinal Bonpre!" The mistress of the inn crossed herself devoutly. "Guiosto cielo! Would Heaven punish a Cardinal?" "Certainly! If a Cardinal is a heretic!" The stout padrona clasped her hands and shuddered. "Not possible!" "Quite possible!" And Gherardi drained his coffee-cup.
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