"As yet nothing has been decided! Wait! I have not yet spoken!" The speaker was Father Salvati, a _Scolopio,_ and an old man with snowy hair, a florid complexion, and bright eyes.
"Nothing has as yet been decided," he repeated.

"I, for one, approve of uniting, but I have one special end in view, while the discourses I have heard seem to me to favour a very different end.

Intellectual progress is good, renovation of the formulas according to the spirit of the times is also good, a Catholic reform is excellent.

I hold with Rafaello Lambruschini, who was a great man; with the _'Pensieri di un solitario'_; but it appears to me that Professor Minucci is advocating a reform of an eminently intellectual nattire, and that----" Here Dane lifted his small, white, refined hand, "Allow me, Father," he said.

"My dear friend Marinier sees that the discussion is reopened.