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Count Cagliostro - Or The Charlatan, A Tale Of The Reign Of Louis XVI (1838) (Paperback)
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Count Cagliostro - Or The Charlatan, A Tale Of The Reign Of Louis XVI (1838) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER III. The Secretary's Report. The Cardinal was sitting alone
in his library not poring over the works of the Fathers, but
conning over the score of a new opera; while ever and anon he
hummed a bar, and tlten refreshed his vocal pipe from a decanter of
choice wine, which stood on a small table beside him. A valet
announced the return of his secretary. The Cardinal intimated that
he should like to see him as soon as possible. Without waiting
either to take refreshment, or even to divest his apparel of the
traces of the journey he had just finished, Maroncelli made his
appearance. " Welcome, Maroncelli; have you got the picture ?" " I
have, your Eminence." " Thrice welcome ! my incomparable secretary,
you are an universal genius, as skilful in executing a negotiation
as wise in devising the plan;?as cunning in judging a picture as
learned in composing a sermon." (The wine and music had elevated
his Eminence's spirits.) " But at what price were you forced to
purchase the gem." " I gave a hundred crowns," said the secretary,
who did not seem inspired with his patron's spirits. " A hundred
crowns!?what, let it go for a hundred crowns !?the pious excellent
old addleheads! I suppose a square yard of painted canvas was to
them a square yard of painted canvas under all circumstances, no
matter whether done by Raphael, or the village sign- painter. Good
lack ! good lack! I wonder whether they can tell a rose from an
onion ? And where, my son, would you advise me to hang this
admirable production ?' " In the centre of the hottest fire in your
palace," emphatically replied the secretary. " Maroncelli!" said
the Cardinal, looking aghast, " do I hear you aright ? No man loves
a jest?that is, a seasonable jest on a proper subject?better than
myself; but I do ...
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