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Updated: May 10, 2025
On several occasions it had seemed to Pierre that the prelate's keen blue eyes were steadily fixed upon him, though all the while he pretended to be attentively listening to the drawling chatter of Celia's aunt. And before replying Pierre glanced at him. In his crimson-edged cassock, with a violet silk sash drawn tightly around his waist, Nani still looked young, although he was over fifty.
She was dressed to go to church, and after expressing her delight at the honor done to herself and her whole household by the prelate's visit, she invited Orion to accompany her. Though he had proposed devoting the next few hours to a different purpose, the dutiful son at once acceded to this wish; he helped her into her chariot, bid the driver go slowly, and seated himself by her side.
The prelate's three hundred thousand livres were devoted to the internal repairs of the Hotel-Dieu. "How is it," people asked, "that the archbishop thinks so highly of M. Necker, and even dines with him?" "0!" answered the wicked wags, "it is because M. Necker is not a Jansenist, he is only a Protestant."
And just as the collar of rubies gleamed like fiery eyes upon the Knight's white satin doublet, so from out the pallor of the Prelate's countenance the eyes shone forth, bright with the fires of eternal, youth, the gay joy of life, the twinkling humour of a shrewd yet kindly wit. They supped at a round table of small size, in the very centre of the huge apartment.
The prelate's face was as pale as Harold's, and it was some moments before he could reply. "The Church can loose and unloose such is its delegated authority. But speak on; what saidst thou at the last to William?" "I know not, remember not aught save these words.
What did that palfrey amid those steeds? the steeds themselves seemed to chafe at the companionship; the Duke's charger pricked up his ears and snorted; the Lord of Breteuil's alezan kicked out, as the poor nag humbly drew near to make acquaintance; and the prelate's white barb, with red vicious eye, and ears laid down, ran fiercely at the low-bred intruder, with difficulty reined in by the squires, who shared the beast's amaze and resentment.
He was too much a son of his time, and the Church and her ministers had exercised too marked influence on his education, for the great prelate's visit to be regarded otherwise than as a high honor.
Then she noted the Comes, as he whispered soothing words in the prelate's ear, praying him perhaps to spare the statue not as an idol, but as a work of art; as he turned from Theophilus with a shrug; and then her heart stood still, and she had to cling to the curtain he pointed to the statue, with a nod of intelligence to Constantine.
Then she noted the Comes, as he whispered soothing words in the prelate's ear, praying him perhaps to spare the statue not as an idol, but as a work of art; as he turned from Theophilus with a shrug; and then her heart stood still, and she had to cling to the curtain he pointed to the statue, with a nod of intelligence to Constantine.
Pierre did not wish to disturb the solemn attention, the quivering silence above which the prelate's voice alone rang out. Accordingly he resolved to wait before seeking Abbe Rose, and remained standing near a pillar. A parting gleam of daylight fell obliquely on Monseigneur Martha, who looked tall and sturdy in his white surplice, and scarcely showed a grey hair, although he was more than fifty.
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