Proceedings have been taken against your book simply because it has been denounced." "Yes, I know, denounced." "Of course.

Complaint was laid by three French bishops, whose names you will allow me to keep secret, and it consequently became necessary for the Congregation to examine the incriminated work." Pierre looked at him quite scared.

Denounced by three bishops?
Why?
With what object?
Then he thought of his protector.

"But Cardinal Bergerot," said he, "wrote me a letter of approval, which I placed at the beginning of my work as a preface.

Ought not a guarantee like that to have been sufficient for the French episcopacy ?" Monsignor Fornaro wagged his head in a knowing way before making up his mind to reply: "Ah! yes, no doubt, his Eminence's letter, a very beautiful letter.