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mute wonder as he passed out of the chamber. The French prelate alone found voice,—
‘Æcumenical Council upon that! The head of the Church wills it! Then brethren, we may say Actum est de fide Christi.’
‘Et salva facta est Ecclesia,’ replied Cardinal Power, also passing out, with a gleam of triumph on his face.
A few hours afterwards the gibbous moon laid clear-cut black shadows from the guarded Vatican, but a broad belt of rippling shimmer upon the ground swell of the Mediterranean, over which the steamship rolled on her outward way to England.
