But what led the singer--you know whom I mean--to the same house ?" Wolf could not restrain a slight smile, and he answered eagerly: "The young lady and I grew up together under the same roof, your Eminence, and she came for no other purpose than to bid me farewell.

A lamb that clings more firmly to the shepherd, and more strongly abhors heresy, could scarcely be found in our Redeemer's flock." "A lamb!" exclaimed the almoner with a slight touch of scorn.

"What are we to think of the foe of heresy who exchanges tender kisses with the wife of the most energetic leader of Protestantism ?" "By your permission, your Eminence," Wolf asserted, "only the daughter offered her her lips.

She and her mother made the singer's acquaintance at the musical exercises established here by the Council.

Music is the only bond between them."-- "Yet there is a bond," cried De Soto suspiciously.