A man like him always had a solution ready.

Who, then, who would be the next pope?
However, he now rose and cordially took leave of the young priest.

"I doubt if I shall see you again, my dear son," he said; "I wish you a good journey." Still he did not go off, but continued to look at Pierre with his penetrating eyes, and finally made him sit down again and did the same himself.

"I feel sure," he said, "that you will go to pay your respects to Cardinal Bergerot as soon as you have returned to France.

Kindly tell him that I respectfully desired to be reminded to him.