Cannot you see that their fingers are almost dug into one another's shoulders?
No, they can never be parted!" Thereupon Cardinal Boccanera intervened.

God had not granted the miracle; and he, His minister, was livid, tearless, and full of icy despair.

But he waved his arm with a sovereign gesture of absolution and sanctification, as if, Prince of the Church that he was, disposing of the will of Heaven, he consented that the lovers should appear in that embrace before the supreme tribunal.

In presence of such wondrous love, indeed, profoundly stirred by the sufferings of their lives and the beauty of their death, he showed a broad and lofty contempt for mundane proprieties.

"Leave them, leave me, my sister," said he, "do not disturb their slumber.