"If a man being a sinner himself, shall on that account refrain from punishing sin in others, then is he twice a sinner." "It was my Lord Gambara taught you that," said I, and involuntarily I sneered.
She considered me with a very searching look.
"Now, what precisely do you mean, Agostino ?" "Why, that it is by just such sophistries that the Cardinal-legate seeks to cloak the disorders of his life.

'Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor ?' is his philosophy.

If he would encage the most sacrilegious fellow in Piacenza, let him encage himself." "You do not love him ?" said she.
"O--as to that--as a man he is well enough.

But as an ecclesiastic...O, but there!" I broke off shortly, and laughed.

"The devil take Messer Gambara!" She smiled.