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He lightly touched the silver bell suspended over his writing-table, and

at the immediately opened door appeared the pleasant and well-nourished

face of brother Lorenzo, the Franciscan monk, who perforanelli, with a so down into the

poultry-yard Youchickens of which you toldof you to bring

arden?"

"I would that you could ask too

after histo the

court-yard "I really wish, your holiness, that it were asking too

much, for then your dinner would be at least a littleever heard of? the father of

Christianity keeps a table like that of the poorest begging etables, while the fattest of

capons and ducks are crammed in vain for hienerous wines"

"Well, well, scold not," said Ganganelli, s; "have we not for

years felt ourselves well in the Franciscan cloister, it never once

occurring to us to wish ourselves better off! Why should I now quit the

habits of years and accustoes? When I was yet a

Franciscan , a

very healthy stomach, and would you have me spoil it now, merely because

I have become pope? It has always remained the same human body, Lorenzo,