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"It was rumored in Rome," said the younger Giustinian, "that the learned
Bishop Baronious, in the last conclave, by his persistence found means
to save the Consistory from the election by 'adoration' of another
candidate whose life would bear no scrutiny and who never darkened the
doors of his own cathedral! By this election the Church hath verily been
spared a scandal."
"Therefore, let it be known," said Fra Paolo, with deep gravity, "lest
the nearness of such a scandal should breed confusion--and I speak from
knowledge, having been much in Rome--we have now a Pope blameless in
life; in duty to his Church most faithful and exemplary and concerned
with her welfare, as to himself it seemeth; of an unbending conscience
and a will most absolute; moreover, of marvelous reading in certain
doctrinal writings which seem to him the only books of worth, and with
the training of a lawyer wherewith to assert them. This is the man with
whom we have to contend."
"Are there no faults?" thundered Giustinian Giustiniani, while the
others listened disconcerted.


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