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The Three Cities Trilogy

PART IV
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Jesuits, Jesuits everywhere?
_Mon Dieu_, it may be so, you are perhaps right! But all the same you must point out the different shades to me.

Now, for instance, what of that Fornaro ?" "Monsignor Fornaro, oh! he's whatever you like.

Still he also was brought up at the Collegio Romano, so you may be certain that he is a Jesuit, a Jesuit by education, position, and ambition.

He is longing to become a cardinal, and if he some day becomes one, he'll long to be the next pope.
Besides, you know, every one here is a candidate to the papacy as soon as he enters the seminary." "And Cardinal Sanguinetti ?" "A Jesuit, a Jesuit! To speak plainly, he was one, then ceased to be one, and is now undoubtedly one again.

Sanguinetti has flirted with every influence.


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