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"See you not," said Lorenzo, with forced cheerfulness, "that since you

are here you have, against your will, again becoerent who holds his splendid court in the

Vatican and Quirinal! Yes, yes that hat brother Clement used to do

in the Franciscan convent; he was always scolding about the pope"

"And yet he let anelli

"Ah, Lorenzo, they were indeed good purposes that decided ood

and holy resolutions were in me when I bore this crown of St Peter for

the first ti, not in years, but in hopes and

illusions I was so enthusiastic for the good and noble, and I wished to

serve it, to honor and glorify it in the name of God!"

"And in the end you have done so!" solehed Ganganelli, "but there it has ended

I have been heh,

I have always found a wall before me--a wall of prejudices, of ancient

customs, once received as indifferent, and at this wallcare that ainst

it, and not be able to speak through, in order to let in a little

freedom, a little fresh air, into our walled real more of it subsists, and of my holiest