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"For my part, I am perfectly honest with you," said Moretti smiling darkly, "I told you, and I tell you again, that to me you are a heretic, accursed and excommunicate. You will, as the democrat 'Gys Grandit, no doubt feel a peculiar pleasure when your father is also declared accursed and excommunicate.
"You you " stammered Moretti, retreating from him as from some loathsome abomination, "You Gys Grandit!" "You, Cyrillon! you! you, my son!" and the Abbe almost lost breath in the extremity of his amazement, while Cardinal Bonpre half rose from his chair doubting whether he had heard aright.
"As prepared as any of the truth-tellers who were burned for the love of Christ by the Inquisition," replied Vergniaud deliberately. "The world is wide, there is room for me in it outside the Church." "One would imagine you were bitten by the new 'Christian Democratic' craze," said Moretti with a cold smile, "And that you were a reader and follower of the Socialist, Gys Grandit!"
"The Holy Father is ready to receive you," he said, "But I regret to inform your Eminence that His Holiness can see no way to excuse or condone the grave offence of the Abbe Vergniaud, moreover, the fact of the sin-begotten son being known to the world as Gys Grandit, makes it more than ever necessary that the ban of excommunication should be passed upon him.
When did you arrive in Rome?" "This morning only," said Cyrillon, recovering his speech and his equanimity together "And as soon as I arrived, I found that my hopes had not betrayed me she is not dead!" "She?" Aubrey started "My dear Grandit! Or rather I must call you Vergniaud now who is the triumphant 'she' that has brought you thus post haste to Rome?" Cyrillon flushed then grew pale.
If it had not been for the boy there " and he glanced at Manuel, "I should certainly have fulfilled my intention." "And then there would have been no Abbe Vergniaud, and no 'Gys Grandit," said the Princesse lightly, endeavouring to change the sombre tone of the conversation, "and the 'Christian Democratic' party would have been in sackcloth and ashes!"
"I am charmed!" said the Princesse D'Agramont, "Good fortune really seems to favour me for once, for in the space of a fortnight I have met two of the most distinguished men of the time, 'Gys Grandit', and Aubrey Leigh!" Aubrey bowed. "You are too kind, Madame! Grandit and I have been friends for some years, though we have never seen each other since I parted from him in Touraine.
"Yes, and he is becoming rather an alarming personage in England, so I hear, " returned the Abbe "He writes books that are distinctly dangerous, because true. He wants to upset shams like our Socialist writer Gys Grandit. Gys Grandit, you know, will never be satisfied till, like Rousseau, he has brought about another French Revolution.
Sylvie made a mental note of that fact in her own mind, very much to the credit of "Gys Grandit," but said nothing further on the subject. Time was hastening on, and she had to return to the Casa D'Angeli to receive Monsignor Gherardi. "I am going to be lectured I suppose," she said laughingly. "I have not seen the worthy Domenico since my engagement to Aubrey was announced!"
"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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