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And Ganganelli's eyes flashed, his sunken cheeks were feverishly

flushed, while he was thus speaking Lorenzo observed it with anxious

eyes; and when the pope ether the good and brave brother Cle himself!"

"And to what end should he spare hianelli; "Death sits withinhimself deeper and deeper in my inward life You must know,

Lorenzo, that my cause of sorrow is precisely this, that I now live in

vain, and that I cannot finish what I began! I wished to make my people

happy and free; that hat alarmed all these princes, that was an

unheard-of innovation, and they have all put their heads together and

whispered to each other, 'He will betray to hts of which we have robbed theive back to mankind

his inherited portion of the booty! But ill then beco their huhts? We

cannot suffer such innovations, for they involve our destruction!' Thus

have they cried, and in their anxiety they have decided upon my death!

Then they threw

the happiness of the people; they all consented that I should relieve

erous tapeworht, 'It will be the death of hiht,

these sly princes, it will be the death of me! I have abolished the

order of Jesuits--in consequence of which I shall die--but the Jesuits