"Wake him," said he; but the other refused.
"Do as I tell you," insisted the ambassador.

The chamberlain went in; and the pope, only half dressed, soon sallied from his room.

"Holy father," said the Venetian, "your Holiness yesterday gave me some bad news which was false; to-day I have to give you some good news which is true: the Swiss are beaten." The pope read the letters brought by the ambassador, and some other letters also.

"What will come of it for us and for you ?" asked the pope.

"For us," was the answer, "nothing but good, since we are with the Most Christian king; and your Holiness will not have aught of evil to suffer." "Sir Ambassador," rejoined the pope, "we will see what the Most Christian king will do; we will place ourselves in his hands, demanding mercy of him." "Holy father, your Holiness will not come to the least harm, any more than the holy See: is not the Most Christian king the church's own son ?" And in the account given of this interview to the Senate of Venice the ambassador added, "The holy father is a good sort of man, a man of great liberality and of a happy disposition; but he would not like the idea of having to give himself much trouble." [Illustration: Leo X .-- --21] Leo X.made up his mind without much trouble to accept accomplished facts.