Part 74 (2/2)
”Yes”
”You have the abbey of St Denis, in France, nificent property?”
”Yes, father”
”You have the abbey of Cluny, which is rich?”
”I have”
”That of St Medard at Soissons, with a revenue of one hundred thousand livres?”
”I cannot deny it”
”That of St Victor, at Marseilles,--one of the best in the south?”
”Yes father”
”A good million a year With the emoluments of the cardinalshi+p and the ministry, I say too little when I say two millions a year”
”Eh!”
”In ten years that is twenty ive, by progression, twenty-three millions in ten years”
”Hoell you reckon for a Theatin!”
”Since your eminence placed our order in the convent we occupy, near St
Germain des Pres, in 1644, I have kept the accounts of the society”
”And ht to know a little of everything, my lord”
”Very well Conclude, at present”
”I conclude that your baggage is too heavy to allow you to pass through the gates of Paradise”
”Shall I be damned?”
”If you do not make restitution, yes”
Mazarin uttered a piteous cry ”Restitution!--but to whoood God?”