"You could never have done that!" "Could I not?
I tell you it was as good as done.

I tell you that the thing was planned.

I took counsel with my confessor, and he showed me my plain duty." She paused a moment, whilst we stared, Fra Gervasio white-faced and with mouth that gaped in sheer horror.
"For years had he eluded the long arm of the pope's justice," she resumed.

"And during those years he had never ceased to plot and plan the overthrow of the Pontifical dominion.

He was blinded by his arrogance to think that he could stand against the hosts of Heaven.