CHAPTER XLIX.
Reconciliation.
‘Yes. That is all which the spiritual interests of mankind require at the hands of the Roman Church,’ said Lesbia gravely, as she laid a printed copy of the papal document upon the breakfast-table at Dulham vicarage. ‘I only hope that Madame Pisa-Vitri will see it in the same light. We must get an introduction to her, Uncle Spines—she is still in Paris—and talk the matter over, and persuade her to receive Cardinal Power. He would like nothing better, I know, than to figure again conspicuously as the leading man.’
‘Well, if I don’t go myself, I will send you Lesbie,’ replied her uncle. ‘Perhaps your friend Lady Friga would accompany you, and be of more service in some ways than I could. But what’s that other letter there, which you have not yet opened?’
‘From Cardinal Power, I declare—just as we were talking about him!’
‘Well, what does he say?’ asked Mr Bristley, as soon as his niece had had time to read the letter.
‘All’s well; there is no need for any of us to go to Paris. Madame Pisa-Vitri herself has written to him, saying that she considers the Council of London and its result as a full and sufficient atonement for all the past errors of the Church; that she assumes all differences between herself
