"The impossible is achieved, and here are tickets for all three of us--to everything--to the Tenebrae, the washing of feet, the Last Supper, the Resurrection, the relics, the Benediction--" "But how did you get them ?" interrupted the ladies, overcome with curiosity.

Madam Dormandy had come hurrying out of her room at the first sound of his voice, and she and the princess now proceeded to pelt their victorious envoy with a volley of questions.
"Well, you see," replied the lawyer, gradually recovering his breath, "it is a curious story.

As I was tearing across the Corso, intent on my errand, I felt some one catch me by the coat-tail and heard a voice call to me in Hungarian, 'Haste makes waste!' I wheeled about, and there stood our Arian friend." "Manasseh Adorjan ?" "Yes.

He asked me if we had our affairs all in order, and I told him, by no means.

I complained to him of our ill luck in securing tickets to the sacred ceremonies, and that it seemed impossible to get even anywhere near the Vatican.