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For the Church rewards; humanity has cursed and killed every great benefactor it ever had INCLUDING CHRIST!" The terrible words beat on Aubrey's ears like the brazen clang of a tocsin, for he knew they were true. But he held his ground. "There are worse things than death," he said simply. Gherardi smiled kindly. "And there are worse things than life!" he said,
In the Gherardi Chapel there is an Annunciation given to Giusto d'Andrea, while in another is a Madonna and Saints by Neri di Bicci. In the chapel of the Cecchini there is a fine fifteenth-century work attributed to Cosimo Rosselli. The old monastery is to-day partly the canonica and partly a villa.
So daring were Thomassin's tricks, and in such popularity was he held, that, fearful of losing their favourite like Gherardi, he was obliged to discontinue them. Another competitor now arose to take the crown from Thomassin, and in the person of one Carlo Bertinazzi, commonly called Carlin. Our actor, Garrick, was an admirer of this famous Mime.
"I am never tired!" answered Manuel. "Nor impatient?" asked Gherardi with a patronising air. "Nor impatient!" "Wonderful boy! If you are never tired or impatient, you will be eminently fitted for the priesthood," said Gherardi, his lip curling with a faint touch of derision, "For even the best of us grow sometimes weary in well-doing!"
He spoke well, with force and fervour, and Aubrey Leigh was for a moment impressed. After a slight pause however, he said, "You admit the ignorance of human beings, and yet you would keep them ignorant?" "Keep them ignorant!" Gherardi laughed lightly. "That is more than any of us can do nowadays!
And Gherardi saw that there was little or no possibility of moving such a man from the firm ground of truth which he had elected to stand on. There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions.
"Why do you now wish to hide yourself?" pursued Gherardi. "Now when you are an honest man at last, and have shown yourself in your true colors? You were a liar hitherto, but now you have discovered yourself to be exactly as the devil made you, why you can look at me without fear we understand each other!"
"In every house there are those rats in every room there is dirt!" said Gherardi, "Presuming that you speak in a moral sense. What of your Houses of Parliament? What of the French Senate? What of the Reichstag? What of the Russian Autocracy? the American Republic? In every quarter the rats squeal, and the dirt gathers! The Church of Rome is purity itself compared to your temporal governments!
Every man must have it, and the more he has, the more he seeks. There is no one in the world who cannot be bought or bribed!" At that moment the green hangings of the door were lifted, and the Italian man-servant announced, "Il Signor Aubri Lee!" Gherardi, who in his pacing to and fro had reached the window, wheeled round abruptly and faced his entering visitor.
"You think it?" queried Gherardi dubiously. "I know it!" replied Moretti rising, and preparing to take his departure, "But, play the game cautiously! Make no false move. For- -understand me well, this man Leigh must be silenced, or we shall lose England!" And with these last words he turned abruptly on his heel and left the apartment.
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