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Updated: May 3, 2025
"No Church!" exclaimed Moretti, "His Eminence must educate you, boy. You must be received." "Yes," said Manuel, raising his eyes, and fixing them full on Moretti, "I must be received! I need education to understand the Church. And so, for me to be received might be difficult!"
For this cause, he, Monsignor Moretti, trusted it would suit the Cardinal's convenience to remain in Rome till the return of Monsieur Claude Cazeau, secretary to the Archbishop of Rouen, who had been despatched back to that city on the business connected with this affair.
Moretti glanced at him with a vexed sense of irritation and reluctant wonder; then moistening his dry lips he began, "I am bound to regret deeply that your Eminence has allowed this painful discussion to take place in your presence without reproof. But I presume you are aware of the responsibility incurred?" The Cardinal slowly inclined his head in grave assent.
It may be that the clasp of my hand in his may be a better preparation for his meeting with God, and my mother, than the touch of the Holy Oils in Extreme Unction!" "Like all your accursed sect, you blaspheme the Sacraments" interrupted Moretti indignantly "And in the very presence of one of her chiefest Cardinals, you scorn the Church!" Cyrillon gave a quick gesture of emphatic denial.
Moretti was in close personal touch with every crowned head in Europe; he was acquainted more closely than anyone alive with the timidities, the nervous horrors, the sudden scruples, the sickening qualms of conscience, and the overwhelming fears of death which troubled the minds of certain powerful personages apparently presenting a brave front to the world, and he held such personages in awe by the very secrets which they had, in weak moments, entrusted to him.
"You are not stricken surely by the childlike fascination with which this princess of coquettes rules her court?" he enquired sarcastically. "I?" echoed Gherardi, shifting his position so that Moretti's gaze could not fall so directly upon him. "I? You jest!" "I think not!" said Moretti, "I think I know something about women their capabilities, their passions, their different grades of power.
As for my attack on the Church " "Ah truly! What of your attack on the Church?" said Moretti, his small eyes glistening, and his breath going and coming quickly. "I would say every word of it again with absolute conviction," declared Vergniaud, "for I have said nothing but the truth!
And he smiled, turning over the vellum volume carelessly. Moretti knitted his dark brows. "No no!" he said musingly, "That would not be possible! Cardinal Bonpre is not that kind of man he would rather bear the heaviest weight of punishment for himself than allow another to suffer.
Cardinal Bonpre, though left to himself, did not rest at once as Manuel had so tenderly bidden him to do, but moved by an impulse stronger than any worldly discretion or consideration, sat down and wrote a letter to the Supreme Pontiff, a letter every word of which came straight from his honest heart, and which he addressed to the Head of his Church directly and personally, without seeking the interposition of Lorenzo Moretti.
Moretti made as though he would have sprung forward, his face was drawn and rigid, his lips tightly compressed, but he had no answer to this unanswerable logic.
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