They promised,--oh! not in writing--I have nothing written!--so I wrote.

I placed myself, like a son, in the hands of the Holy Father .-- Now, this morning there is my letter--the whole of it--in the _Osservatore Romano_! To-morrow!--I came to tell you--I withdraw it.

I withdraw my submission!' He drew himself up, his blue eyes shining.

Yet they were swollen with fatigue and sleeplessness, and over the whole man a blighting breath of age and pain had passed since the day in St.Peter's.
Manisty looked at him in silence a moment.

Then he said-- 'I'm sorry--heartily, heartily sorry!' At this Eleanor, thinking that the two men would prefer to be alone, turned to leave the room.