I will afterwards escort your Eminence to the private apartments." "Yes, by all means.

I desire every one to know how greatly I participate in the sorrow which has fallen on this illustrious house." Then Sanguinetti entered the throne-room, leaving Pierre quite aghast at his quiet audacity.

The young priest certainly did not accuse him of direct complicity with Santobono, he did not even dare to measure how far his moral complicity might go.

But on seeing him pass by like that, his brow so lofty, his speech so clear, he had suddenly felt convinced that he knew the truth.

How or through whom, he could not have told; but doubtless crimes become known in those shady spheres by those whose interest it is to know of them.