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half the month is past, and we are already near the end of our means!"

"Already?" exclaimed the pope, with alarm "And I believe I yet need

much money There is a father of fourteen children who has fallen fros We must care for him, Lorenzo; the

children must not want for bread!"

"That is understood, that is Christian duty," said Lorenzo, eagerly

"Give o to him yet to-day! And how ht," tianelli, "that five scudi would

not be too ed his shoulders "You can never learn

the value of money," said he; "I am now to take five scudi to these

fourteen children"

"Is it not enough?" joyfully asked Ganganelli "Well, I thank God that

you are so disposed! I only feared you would refuse me so much, because

my treasury, as you say, is already eive much, much more! At least a hundred scudi, Lorenzo!"

"That is always the ith you; frorumbled

Lorenzo "First too little, then too much! I shall take to them twenty

scudi, and that will be sufficient!"