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But we must always say, 'Father forgive them, for they know not what they do! I will write to Gherardi, and, if you will permit me, I will remain in my own rooms tonight for I must think and pray, I must be alone . . ." "Without me, my lord Cardinal?" asked Manuel softly. "No, not without you!" and Bonpre looked at him with a smile, "Not without you!
"Well, you must interview the Cardinal yourself," said Gherardi indulgently, "and tell me afterwards what you think about it, if indeed you think anything. But you will not find him at home this morning. He is summoned to the Vatican." "On account of the miracle? or the scandal affecting the Abbe Vergniaud?" asked Aubrey.
Gherardi stood still, breathing quickly, but otherwise unmoved. "Plot?" he echoed. "You must be mad! I have no plot against anyone. My business is to uphold the cause of truth and justice, and I shall certainly defend the name of the great artist who painted that picture" and he pointed to Angela's canvas "Florian Varillo! Dead as he is, his memory shall live!"
"Yes, I grant you that it is full of subtle means for approaching and commanding the ignorant," said Aubrey. "But to the intellectual forces it offers no progress." "The intellectual forces can clear their own way!" declared Gherardi, rising to his full imposing height, and beaming sovereign benevolence on his visitor, "and can, if they choose, make their own Church.
Originally it meant the Word or Discourse of God, it has now come to mean the words or discourses, or quarrels and differences of men on the things of God! But God's Word remains God's Word eternally, invincibly! No man can alter it, and Christ preached it so plainly that the most simple child cannot fail to understand it!" Moretti was about to speak when again Gherardi interrupted him.
I have no wish to play at any game of double-dealing with you. I have heard the whole of your interview with this lady. It is the first time I have ever played the eavesdropper but my duty was to protect my promised wife, if she needed protection and I thought it was possible she might need it from YOU!" Gherardi turned a livid paleness, and drew a quick breath.
Civilly calm and cold he stood, holding Sylvie close to him with one embracing arm, and Gherardi, looking at the two together thus, impotently wished that the heavy sculptured and painted ceiling above them might fall and crush them into a pulp before him. No shame, no sense of compunction moved him, if anything, he raised his head more haughtily than before.
"Of course!" answered Gherardi suavely, though his heart beat thickly, and the secret admiration he had always felt for the delicate beauty of this woman who was so utterly out of his reach, made his blood burn with mingled rage and passion. "Even a poor priest is not exempt from temptation!" Sylvie hummed a little tune under her breath, and looked up at the sky.
"But there is a great difference between Rampolla and Bonpre," said Gherardi, with twinkling eyes, "Bonpre is scarcely ever in Rome. He lives a life apart and has for a long while been considered as a kind of saint from the privacy and austerity of his life. But he has heralded his arrival in the Eternal City triumphantly by the performance of a miracle!
In some places of worship, such as the tawdry church of the 'Annunziata' in Florence that protest seems to reach its climax. Leigh's clear penetrating voice, artistically modulated to the perfectly musical expression of thought, was not without its usual effect, even on a mind so callous as that of Gherardi.
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