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... Benedetta's Curse - The Lovers ' Death - XIV SUBMISSION rooms - - The Vatican by Night - The Papal Ante- Some Great Popes - His Holiness's Bed - room -Pierre's Reception - Papal Wrath - Pierre's Appeal -The Pope's Policy - Dogma and ...
... Benedetta's Curse - The Lovers ' Death - XIV SUBMISSION rooms - - The Vatican by Night - The Papal Ante- Some Great Popes - His Holiness's Bed - room -Pierre's Reception - Papal Wrath - Pierre's Appeal -The Pope's Policy - Dogma and ...
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... Benedetta had sent Pierre word that she desired to see him , he went down to her little salon , and there found her chatting with Celia . " I've seen your Pierina , you know , " exclaimed the latter , just as the young priest came in ...
... Benedetta had sent Pierre word that she desired to see him , he went down to her little salon , and there found her chatting with Celia . " I've seen your Pierina , you know , " exclaimed the latter , just as the young priest came in ...
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... Benedetta , whose budding jealousy was entirely confined to La Pierina , " so my poor Dario is ruining himself in white roses ! Well , I shall have to twit him about it . But one or another of these beauties will end by robbing me of ...
... Benedetta , whose budding jealousy was entirely confined to La Pierina , " so my poor Dario is ruining himself in white roses ! Well , I shall have to twit him about it . But one or another of these beauties will end by robbing me of ...
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... Benedetta made the priest sit down again : " I have been asked to give you some important advice , my friend , " she said . " It seems that the news of your presence in Rome is spreading , and that bad reports of you are circulated ...
... Benedetta made the priest sit down again : " I have been asked to give you some important advice , my friend , " she said . " It seems that the news of your presence in Rome is spreading , and that bad reports of you are circulated ...
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... Benedetta became quite animated as she explained the reasons of her hopefulness . " Mon- signor Nani can do everything , " she said , " and I am very happy that my affair should be in his hands . You must be reasonable also , my friend ...
... Benedetta became quite animated as she explained the reasons of her hopefulness . " Mon- signor Nani can do everything , " she said , " and I am very happy that my affair should be in his hands . You must be reasonable also , my friend ...
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Strona 284 - Then came the apogee. Amidst growing exaltation, buoyed up by a blaze of love, careless of glances, candid like a lily, she divested herself of her garments and stood forth so white, that neither marble statue, nor dove, nor snow itself was ever whiter. "Here I am, my Dario, here I am ! " Recoiling almost to the ground as at sight of an apparition, the glorious flash of a holy vision, Pierre and Victorine gazed at her with dazzled eyes. The servant had not stirred to prevent this extraordinary action,...
Strona 286 - ... a second, which seemed an eternity, they clasped one another, she neither repelled nor terrified by the disorder which made him so unrecognisable, but displaying a delirious passion, a holy frenzy as if to pass beyond life, to penetrate with him into the black Unknown. And beneath the shock of the felicity at last offered to him he expired, with his arms yet convulsively wound around her as though indeed to carry her off. Then, whether from grief or from bliss amidst that embrace of death, there...