Casting of Nets Volume 2
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... laughed--a laugh of quiet amusement. "A very fair retort," he replied. "But the Campagna is not Rome. It is the work of God--not that of man. I should like to hear your first impressions of it, for you will probably not have occasion to change them." "Well," said Hilda, "it is beautiful, but it gave me an impression of infinite sadness. You will laugh at me, Monsignore, but I felt surrounded by death." "I do not laugh at you at all. You are quite right. In the Campagna one is surrounded by the dead. Dead civilisations, vanished races----" "A dead religion." Monsignor Martini interrupted her. "A dead religion? Oh no, Lady Redman! there you are mistaken. No religion dies." Hilda was about to ask him what he meant when her husband approached them. "Walter," she exclaimed, as, seeing her engaged in conversation with an ecclesiastic, he was about to pass on, "this is Monsignor Martini. Let me introduce my husband to you, Monsignore," she added, and the two men shook hands with each other. "And tell me about my friend Mr. Shirley," said Monsignor Martini. "Have you seen him lately? and is he coming to Rome this spring? Ah! Lord Redman, there is a man with a head--a head to think and a heart to feel. So few people have both." "You admire him so much?" asked Walter Redman, looking at the priest curiously. "And yet," he added, "I should have thought that you would be utterly opposed to his views, Monsignore." Monsignor Martini twitched his violet silk mantle a little impatiently. "I do not care about his views," he replied; "they are for himself, and for those who...
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