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Two things principally occupied the Ro the of

these they had forgotten all other events; they spoke no iant fish which had destroyed the friendship of France and Spain; they

no longer entertained each other with anecdotes in connection with the

festival of Cardinal Bernis, at which the entree of that fish upon his

long silver platter was hailed with shouts and vivats--yes, even that

Russian princess, who had momentarily shown herself on the horizon of

society, all these were quickly forgotten, and people now interested

themselves only about the extirpation of the order of the Jesuits, which

Pope Clement had now really effected, and of the arrival of the Russian

ambassador-extraordinary, the famous Alexis Orloff, whose visit to Ronificant as they well knehat near

and confidential relations his brother, Count Gregory Orloff, stood with

the Empress Catharine, and what participation Alexis Orloff had in the

sudden death of the Eer existed; the pious fathers of

the order of Jesus were stricken out of the book of history; a word of

power had annihilated them! With loud complaints and lamentations they

filled the streets of the holy city, and if the prayer of hunation resounded from their lips, yet there were very different

prayers in their hearts, prayers of anger and rage, of hatred and

revenge! They were seen wringing their hands and loudly la, as

they hastened to their friends and protectors, and besieged the doors of

the foreign e people to

whom the pious fathers had proved themselves benefactors For, since

they knew that their existence was threatened, they had assiduously

devoted the,

especially in Roenerosity Prodigious su the poor;