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Updated: June 3, 2025
Well, it was in those long nights; I got thinking about the books and about what the students had said and wondering whether they were right and what Our Lord would have said about it all." "Did you ask Him?" Montanelli's voice was not quite steady. "Often, Padre. Sometimes I have prayed to Him to tell me what I must do, or to let me die with mother. But I couldn't find any answer."
The idea of settling the difficulty by a courtmartial had, as Gemma and Michele had foreseen, presented itself to him as the only satisfactory solution; and Cardinal Montanelli's stubborn refusal to countenance this was the last drop which made the cup of his vexations overflow.
"Have you brothers and sisters?" "No; I have step-brothers; but they were business men when I was in the nursery." "You must have had a lonely childhood; perhaps you value Canon Montanelli's kindness the more for that. By the way, have you chosen a confessor for the time of his absence?" "I thought of going to one of the fathers of Santa Caterina, if they have not too many penitents."
"Very well, it doesn't matter." He went into the alcove, and, kneeling down, kissed the feet and pedestal of the crucifix, whispering softly: "Lord, keep me faithful unto death." When he rose, the officer was standing by the table, examining Montanelli's portrait. "Is this a relative of yours?" he asked. "No; it is my confessor, the new Bishop of Brisighella."
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