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head "Austria also agrees to this uese

Minister Pombal, and I am inclined to think that this Austrian archduke

has co to the pope the

consent of the Eular! their chaste

and virtuous Maria Theresa and our good Po this course are both acting against their oill The woood fathers who furnish them

with an excuse for every weakness, and hold a little back door open for

every sin That is very convenient for these good women! Yes, yes, the

wo, the cardinal sank deeper into hi times, when he had not yet counted sixty-five years He

dreamed of Venice, and of a beautiful nun he had loved there, and who

for hiht-ti with passion, had come to him He dreamed of these heavenly

hours, where all pleasure and all happiness had been compressed into one

blessed intoxication of bliss, where the chaste priestess of the Church

had for hi priestess of joy!