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"And your beloved, what became of her?" asked the cardinal "Did she

pardon your treason, and console herself in the aranelli, with a low voice "My silence

and etfulness of her broke her heart; she died of grief,

but she died like a saint, and her last words were: 'May God forgive

hih him

am I released from the burden of this life, and all sorrow is overcome!'

She therefore died in the belief of my unfaithfulness; she did, indeed,

pardon me, but yet she believed me a faithless betrayer! And the

consciousness of this was to me a new torment and a penance which I

shall suffer forever and ever! This is the story of anelli, after a short silence "I have truly related it to you as

it is May you, ht, we

can always succeed, in spite of our own hearts and sinful natures, and

that with God's help we can overcome all and suffer all You see that

I have loved, and nevertheless had strength to renounce But it was God

who gave th, God alone! Turn you, also, to God; pray to

Him to destroy in you your sinful love; and, if you iht fervor, then will God be near you with

His strength, and in the pains of renunciation will He purify your soul,

preparing it for virtue and all that is good!"

"And do you call that virtue?" asked the cardinal "May Heaven preserve

God when this virtue

e than a wild

beast, deaf to the amorous complaints of a woman whom you had led into

love and sin, whose virtue you sacrificed to your lust, and whom you