She would exercise no influence at it.

It is a great mistake on the part of our Republican Government to treat the Holy See as of no importance! However, can one ever tell whether the Pope is ill or not?
I know for a certainty that he was nearly carried off last winter when nobody breathed a word about any illness, whereas on the last occasion when the newspapers killed him and talked about a dreadful attack of bronchitis, I myself saw him quite strong and in the best of spirits! His reported illnesses are mere matters of policy, I fancy."* * There is much truth in this; but the reader must not imagine that the Pope is never ill.

At his great age, indispositions are only natural .-- Trans.
With a hasty gesture, however, Monsignor Fornaro brushed this importunate subject aside.

"No, no," said he, "people are tranquillised and no longer talk of it.

What excites all those ladies is that the Congregation of the Council to-day voted the dissolution of the Prada marriage by a great majority." Again did Pierre feel moved.