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"Is the sunlight accursed?" she said, "The grass or the flowers? The thoughts in this book are as pure and beautiful as they!" Gherardi smiled. The enthusiasm of a woman's unspoilt nature was always a source of amusement to him. "Your sentiments are very pretty and poetic!" he said, "But they are exaggerated.
Gherardi, in his treatise, "Theâtre Italien," speaks of a Scaramouch, who, waiting for his master, Harlequin, seats and plays on the guitar. Suddenly, by Pasquariel, he is thrown into a fright.
Gherardi lifted his eyes from their scrutiny of the ground, and fixed them upon her with a look of amazement that was almost a menace. But she was not in the least intimidated, and her face, though pale as the narcissi she had just seen in blossom, was very tranquil.
"It is settled!" he returned, "Not even the Church can intervene between Vergniaud and his Maker now!" Gherardi uttered an exclamation of undisguised annoyance. "Dead!" he ejaculated, his forehead growing crimson with the anger he inwardly repressed "Since when?" "Last night he passed away," replied the Cardinal. "according to the telegram I have just received from his son.
These papers," and he sat down at the table once more, "are, I think, sufficiently in order to be placed before His Holiness. But you may as well look through them with me first. Later on, the affair of Cardinal Bonpre will occupy all our time . . ." "It is an 'affair' then?" asked Gherardi, "The 'saint' is in trouble?"
"I know your moves," went on Aubrey quietly, "and it will be my business as well as my pleasure to frustrate them. Moreover, I shall give your plot into the care of the public press " "You will not dare!" cried Gherardi fiercely. "But after all, what matter if you do! no one will believe you!" "Not in Rome, perhaps," returned Aubrey coolly. "But in England, in America, things are different.
"Tell me that the murderer of my child's youth and joy is dead and gone to hell and I will sing a Laus Deo at St. Peter's! I will pay you a thousand pounds in masses to keep his soul safe with the devil to whom it has gone!" "Prince Sovrani, you are in ignorance of the facts," said Gherardi coldly.
Monsignor Gherardi was a most useful man at the Vatican, as he never failed to comfort the Pope whenever that Holy Personage was cast down or afraid of brooding disasters. When the Representative of the ever-merciful Christ ventured to give it out as his Christian opinion that the unhappy and maltreated Dreyfus would be found guilty Monsignor Gherardi smilingly agreed with him.
And with another sigh she dismissed the subject from her mind for the moment, her attention being distracted by the appearance of Monsignor Gherardi, who just then entered and took up a position by the Cardinal's chair, looking the picture of imposing and stately affability.
"She is not strong enough to stand a scene. And no doubt Gherardi has come to make one! We will leave him to you, Mr. Leigh and to Gys Grandit!" She withdrew at once with Angela, and in another moment Gherardi was ushered in. He glanced quickly around him as he made his formal salutation, his eyes rested for a moment on Sylvie and Aubrey Leigh then he addressed himself to Prince Pietro.
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