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But on this night of all the night of Sylvie's "religious" marriage, the Cardinal was stricken by a heavy blow. He had expected some misfortune, but had not realized that it would be quite so heavy as it proved. The sum and substance of his trouble was contained in a "confidential" letter from Monsignor Moretti, and was worded as follows
Signor Francesca Moretti is a man, I should suppose, on the better side of forty, of a tall, stalwart figure, such as becomes a genuine workman, with a bearded face which, put a velvet toque above it, might well recall some of the heads which the wood-cut blocks in the old editions of Vasari have preserved for us.
Moretti bent down, as custom forced him to do, under the gently uttered blessing, and the extended thin white hand that signed the cross above him. Then with a furtive under-glance at Manuel, whose quiet and contemplative observation of him greatly vexed and disturbed his composure, he left the room. There was a short silence. Then Abbe Vergniaud, somewhat hesitatingly, approached Bonpre.
"I repeat, I did not speak to you," said Moretti, his eyes sparkling with fury, "To me you are a heretic, accursed, and excommunicate! thrust out of salvation, and beyond my province to deal with!" "Oh, that a man should be thrust out of salvation in these Christian days!" exclaimed Cyrillon with a flashing look of scorn, "And that he should find a servant of Christ to tell him so!
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.
But Cyrillon went on unheedingly, "Beware of that symbol of your Church, Monsignor! It is a very strange one! It seems about to be expanded into a reality of dreadful earnest! 'I know not the man, said Peter. Monsignor, there is no true representative of Christ in this world!" "Not for heretics possibly," said Moretti disdainfully.
My husband's business interests necessitated very frequent trips North " "What business was he in, Nan?" "That is immaterial," she evaded him. "Presently, Signer Moretti contracted a severe cold and closed his studio for a month.
He was such good company and such a jolly, worldly fellow so thoughtful and deferential! Can't you realize, Donald, how he must have appealed to a little country goose like me? "Well, finally, daddy Brent learned that Signor Moretti, a tenor who had retired from grand opera, had opened a studio in San Francisco.
"The attack on the Church I admit," said the Abbe quietly, "I am not the only preacher in the world who has so attacked it. Christ Himself would attack it if He were to visit this earth again!" Moretti turned angrily towards the Cardinal. "Your Eminence permits this blasphemy to be uttered in your presence?" he demanded.
He would see through it at once!" "Maybe!" replied Moretti, "But perhaps not if it were administered in the way I mean. You seem to have forgotten the chief influence of any that can be brought to bear upon the heart and mind of a man, and that is, Woman." Gherardi laughed outright. "Upon my word I think it would be difficult to find the woman suited to this case!" he said.
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