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"Yes, yes, I now remember it all," said Albani, with a smile "You spoke

to olden tube,

you would gladly help to the honor of being drunk by his holiness from

the communion chalice"

"It is so precious a wine that only the vicegerent of God is worthy of

wetting his lips with it It must touch the lips of no other mortal!"

"I know such a wine," said Albani; "it thrives best in the region

of Naples,() and whoever drinks of it becomes a partaker of eternal

blessedness"

() The celebrated poison, Acqua Tofana, is prepared only

in Naples

"Yes, you are right, it is a wonderfully strengthening wine!" said the

prior, folding his hands and directing his eyes toward the heavens "We

thank God that He has left us in possession of so precious an essence!

The pope, they say, is suffering and needs strengthening See how

closely we follow the teaching of Him whose name we bear, and who has

commanded, 'Love your ene ourselves, ould be his benefactors, and refresh him with

the most precious of e possess!"