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I have the honour of presenting his Eminence Egidio Maria Cardinal Udeschini, formerly Bishop of Cittareggio, Prefect of the Congregation of Archives and Inscriptions. That was his title ecclesiastical. He had two other titles. He was a Prince of the Udeschini by accident of birth. But his third title was perhaps his most curious.
Marchdale: It will give me great pleasure if you can dine with us on Thursday evening next, at eight o'clock, to meet my uncle, Cardinal Udeschini, who is staying here for a few days. "I have been re-reading 'A Man of Words. I want you to tell me a great deal more about your friend, the author. Yours sincerely, BEATRICE DI SANTANGIOLO."
"In a case of illness, the nearest priest will always gladly come." So Peter despatched Gigi with a note to Monsignor Langshawe. And presently up drove a brougham, with Gigi on the box beside the coachman. And from the brougham descended, not Monsignor Langshawe, but Cardinal Udeschini, followed by Emilia Manfredi.
And Emilia continued to come every morning. "Why does the Duchessa never come?" Peter wondered. "It would be decent of her to come and see the poor old woman." Whenever he thought of Cardinal Udeschini, the same strange feeling of joy would spring up in his heart, which he had felt when he had left the beautiful old man with Marietta, on the day of his first visit.
His very name, his family-name, Ferretti, was merely the Irish name, Farrity, Italianised, the good bishop says. No one but an Irishman, he insists, could have been so witty." Mrs. O'Donovan Florence looked intensely thoughtful for a moment.... Then, "I 'm trying to think of the original Irish form of Udeschini," she declared. At which there was a general laugh.
And perhaps, in effect, it was not a particularly felicitous expression. But if the poor woman was suffering from nervous apprehension ? "I beg you on no account to disturb Cardinal Udeschini," he returned loftily. "It is not a matter of the slightest consequence." And even as he stiffened, she unbent. "But it is a matter of consequence to him, to us," she said, faintly smiling.
"The Signorina Emelia Manfredi was with him," answered Marietta, little recking how mere words can stab. "Oh," said Peter. "The Lord Prince Cardinal Udeschini was very sorry not to see the Signorino," continued Marietta. "Poor man was he? Let us trust that time will console him," said Peter, callously.
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