deeply-loved

Updated: June 28, 2025

"Perhaps so," resumed the Count with his uneasy smile. "You are right, no doubt only go and tell that to your host, for instance, Cardinal Boccanera, who last summer held in his arms an old and deeply-loved friend, Monsignor Gallo, who died after a seizure of a couple of hours." "But apoplexy may kill one in two hours, and aneurism only takes two minutes."

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris