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Dawn of All

CHAPTER III
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It'll all come perfectly right, I have no manner of doubt.

Father Jervis, just ask the doctor to step here." The Cardinal talked a minute or two longer, still with that soothing, peaceful air; and Monsignor, as he listened, watched the priest go up to a row of black boxes, resembling those in his own room, and take down a shutter from one of them.

He then said a rapid sentence or two in a whisper, reclosed the shutter, and came back.
"If things don't clear themselves, you will just have to learn your business over again, Monsignor," went on the Cardinal, still smiling.

"Father Jervis has told me how well you did at lunch; and Mr.Manners said nothing, except that you were a very good host and a very graceful listener.

So you need not fear that any one will notice.


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