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The Wandering Jew

CHAPTER XVI
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I keep my eye upon him continually.

These lines will reach Rome at the same time as himself.
"P.S .-- Tell the Cardinal-Prince that he may rely on me, but I hope for his active aid in return." When he had folded and sealed this letter, Rodin put it into his pocket.
The clock struck ten, M.Rodin's hour for breakfast.

He arranged and locked up his papers in a drawer, of which he carried away the key, brushed his old greasy hat with his sleeve, took a patched umbrella in his hand, and went out.

(1) Whilst these two men, in the depths of their obscure retreat, were thus framing a plot, which was to involve the seven descendants of a race formerly proscribed--a strange mysterious defender was planning how to protect this family, which was also his own.
1 Having cited the excellent, courageous letters of M.Libri, and the curious work edited by M.Paulin, it is our duty likewise to mention many bold and conscientious writings on the subject of the "Society of Jesus," recently published by the elder Dupin, Michelet, Quinet, Genin, and the Count de Saint Priest--works of high and impartial intellects, in which the fatal theories of the order are admirably exposed and condemned.

We esteem ourselves happy, if we can bring one stone towards the erection of the strong, and, we hope, durable embankment which these generous hearts and noble minds are raising against the encroachments of an impure and always menacing flood .-- E.


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