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The Velvet Glove

CHAPTER XIV
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O'Farrell, who in 1868 attempted the life of the Duke of Edinburgh in Australia, was a Jesuit sent out to the care of the society in Australia.
The great days of Jesuitism are gone but the society still lives.

In England and in other Protestant countries they continue to exist under different names.

The "Adorers of Jesus," the Redemptionists, the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine, the Brothers of the Congregation of the Holy Virgin, the Fathers of the Faith, the Order of St.Vincent de Paul--are Jesuits.

How far they belong to the heart and not to the head, is a detail only known to themselves.

Those who have followed the contemporary history of France may draw their own conclusions from the trials of the case of the Assumptionist Fathers.
"Los mismos perros, con nuevos cuellos"-- said Sarrion to any who sought to convince him that Spain owed her downfall to other causes, and that the Jesuits were no longer what they had been.


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