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That of Vedel was already on its march. Marshal Moncey had failed before Valencia, and could not commence the investment for want of siege guns; he had brought back his division in good condition, and effected his junction with General Frere at San Clemente.
Prisca, San Clemente, very Byzantine and fine in the gloom, and then to that dear church of the Santi Quattro Coronati, which has beckoned to me ever since my childhood; and which, with its fortified-looking apse, its yard and great gate-tower, looks like a remote abbey one would drive to, forgotten, hidden, unheard of, for hours and hours from some out-of-the-way country town.
Giovanni had lent the young man books, and Don Clemente had been to Selva's house and made Maria's acquaintance.
San Clemente, who was attending the Diet at Ratisbon, was shocked at the scenes he witnessed.
When Pinturicchio was working with Pietro Perugino and painting at Rome in the time of Pope Sixtus, he had also been in the service of Domenico della Rovere, Cardinal of San Clemente; wherefore the said Cardinal, having built a very beautiful palace in the Borgo Vecchio, charged Pinturicchio to paint the whole of it, and to make on the façade the coat of arms of Pope Sixtus, with two little boys as supporters.
Don Clemente's whole face flushed as he spoke thus, in low tones. Benedetto bowed his head, and Don Clemente laid his hands upon it with gentle dignity. "Do you desire to surrender your whole being to Supreme Truth, to His Church, visible and invisible?" said the low, manly voice. As though he had expected both the action and the question, Benedetto answered at once, and in a firm voice: "Yes."
He rested a moment, and looked with a smile, at Don Clemente, seated beside the bed. "Your words, spoken at dear Santa Scolastica," he said, and continued: "Be pure in your lives, for otherwise you will dishonour Christ before the world.
That ended, the Pope receives from the hands of the Cardinal of San Clemente the splendid mantle of gonfalonier, and sets it about the duke's shoulders with the prescribed words: "May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness."
Benedetto replied, almost under his breath, trembling violently: "I am not a holy man; I did not heal this one, and for the other one of whom you speak, I can only pray." When they had told him that the sick man was their brother, that he was in the hut, stretched on the bed, and suffering greatly, Benedetto said to Don Clemente: "Let us go and care for him!"
The glistening eyes lighted up with joy. Benedetto called the mother, who, escaping from Maria's open arms, threw herself upon her son. At that moment Don Clemente entered, looking exhausted; Giovanni and the parish priest were with him. At the priest's house Don Clemente had found an ecclesiastic whom he did not know, arguing with the parish priest.
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