As a rule only fragments are submitted to me.

But a person who is interested in you handed me the volume, begging me to glance through it.

And that is how I was able to look into it." As he spoke he made a slight gesture in which Pierre fancied he could detect a protest against the isolation in which he was kept by those surrounding him, who, as Monsignor Nani had said, maintained a strict watch in order that nothing they objected to might reach him.

And thereupon the young priest ventured to say: "I thank your Holiness for having done me so much honour.

No greater or more desired happiness could have befallen me." He was indeed so happy! On seeing the Pope so calm, so free from all signs of anger, and on hearing him speak in that way of his book, like one well acquainted with it, he imagined that his cause was won.
"You are in relations with Monsieur le Vicomte Philibert de la Choue, are you not, my son ?" continued Leo XIII.