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He had suggested, in company with the German Cardinal, that they two should return to their respective countries at the close of the year, to encourage the waverers; but the answer had been that their vocation was to remain in Rome, unless something unforeseen happened. As for Felsenburgh, there was little news. It was said that he was in the East; but further details were secret.
Of course, the logic, in itself indisputable, had been dressed in a variety of costumes gilded with rhetoric, flushed with passion, and it had done its work in such a manner that as summer drew on Felsenburgh had announced privately that he proposed to introduce a bill which should carry out to its logical conclusion the policy of which he had spoken. Now, this too, had been accomplished.
He would tell the authorities, as he had already told them fifty times, that it was not persecution that mattered; it was this new outburst of enthusiasm for Humanity an enthusiasm which had waxed a hundredfold more hot since the coming of Felsenburgh and the publication of the Eastern news which was melting the hearts of all but the very few. Man had suddenly fallen in love with man.
At a few minutes before eleven Percy came out of his little white-washed room in his new ferraiuola, soutane and buckle shoes, and tapped at the door of the Cardinal's room. He felt a great deal more self-possessed now. He had talked to the Cardinal freely and strongly, had described the effect that Felsenburgh had had upon London, and even the paralysis that had seized upon himself.
He has been guilty of none of those crimes there is not one that convicts him of sin those crimes of the Yellow Press, of corruption, of commercial or political bullying which have so stained the past of all those old politicians who made the sister continent what she has become. Mr. FELSENBURGH has not even formed a party. He, and not his underlings, have conquered.
Felsenburgh was still in retirement; he had refused the offers made to him by France and Italy, as that of England; and, although nothing definite was announced, it seemed that he was confining himself at present to an unofficial attitude. Meanwhile the Parliaments of Europe were busy in the preliminary stages of code-revision. Nothing would be done, it was understood, until the autumn sessions.
It was a terse, well-written book, composed by an unknown hand, and some even suspected it to be the disguised work of Felsenburgh himself. More, however, considered that it was written at least with Felsenburgh's consent by one of that small body of intimates whom he had admitted to his society that body which under him now conducted the affairs of West and East.
And in an hour he would know more; he was summoned to Westminster to a meeting of the whole House; their proposals to Felsenburgh were to be formulated; it was intended to offer him a great position. Yes, as Mabel had said; this was now their work to carry into effect the new principle that had suddenly become incarnate in this grey-haired young American the principle of Universal Brotherhood.
He bowed. "Ah! I hope you will get through. You will find London very much excited. Perhaps you heard " "Felsenburgh?" said Percy. "Yes. Julian Felsenburgh," said the girl softly, again with that strange excitement suddenly alight in her eyes. "Julian Felsenburgh," she repeated. "He is there, you know. He will stay in England for the present."
So, if we may believe it, the eyes of many, centuries ago, were turned on one known now to history as JESUS OF NAZARETH. "Mr. FELSENBURGH stood so a moment longer, then he turned down the steps, passed across the platform and disappeared. "Of what took place outside we have received the following account from an eye-witness.
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