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With half Rome declaring that she WAS the mistress of Fontenelle, and the other half swearing itself black in the face that she IS the mistress of Gherardi, she certainly ought to be very happy, ought she not? Indeed, almost dancing with the joy and consolation of knowing how pleasant her 'Society' friends are making her life for her!" Aubrey's heart beat violently.
"A mystery then?" said Gherardi, still preserving his bland suavity of demeanour, "But permit me, Donna Sovrani, to express the hope that when the veil is lifted a crown of laurels may be disclosed for you!" Angela thanked him by a silent inclination of her head, and in a few minutes the stately Vatican spy had taken his leave.
To this Paolo Orsini refused to consent, but, upon being pressed in the matter by Gherardi, went so far as to promise to submit the clause to the others. On October 30 Cesare published a notice in the Romagna, intimating the return to obedience on the part of his captains.
"Are not his own plain words enough?" Gherardi stared at the young speaker half angrily. "His own plain words enough?" he repeated mechanically. "What do you mean, boy?" "I mean," answered Manuel simply, "that if He were truly a Manifestation of God in Himself, as the Church declares Him to be, I WONDER THAT MAN CAN DARE TO FORMULATE MERE DOGMA ON GOD'S OWN UTTERANCE!" There was a dead pause.
After a few minutes of chill silence Gherardi addressed the Cardinal. "Your young friend has a dangerous tongue!" he said sternly, "You had best warn or command him that he set a guard upon it in the Holy Father's presence!"
Earnestly did the good Felix, thinking Gherardi was a friend, explain again his utter unconsciousness of any miracle having been performed at his hands, and with equal fervour did he plead the cause of Vergniaud, in the spirit and doctrine of Christ, pointing out that the erring Abbe was, without any subterfuge at all, truly within proximity of death, and that therefore it seemed an almost unnecessary cruelty to set the ban of excommunication against a repentant and dying man.
Gherardi glanced him up and down, and then turned from him in disgust as from something infected by a loathly disease. "Prince Sovrani!" he said. "I cannot condescend to converse with a street ranter, such as this misguided person, who has most regrettably obtained admission to your house and society!
And for the Church a Church which does not hesitate to excommunicate a dying man, and persecute a good one, I will leave the possibility of its wrath, together with all other consequences of my act to God!" For one moment Gherardi felt that he could have sprung upon her and throttled her.
"Wait!" said Gherardi in low fierce accents, his eyes glittering with mingled rage and the admiration of her beauty which he could ill conceal. "Wait! If you care nothing for yourself in this matter, is it possible that you care nothing for him? Have you thought of the results of such rashness as you meditate?
He had seen the Pope officiate at High Mass in the Sistine Chapel, having procured the "introduction from very high quarters" which, even according to ordinary guide-books, is absolutely necessary, the "high quarters" in this instance being Monsignor Gherardi.
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