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the doctor which are indispensable to her recovery.

We have desired to say this to you at the solemn moment in which, to our confusion and distress, you have willed to strike at our dearest friend. Amid the bitterness which it has inflicted upon our hearts we send to him a greeting and an augury. May Don Romolo Murri drink the bitter cup of his suffering, not as a beaten foe who rebels against the conqueror, but as a free man, clearsighted, generous, and assured that his sacrifice is being made for the high Christian ideals of Justice and Truth!

From our hearts we implore you to show wisdom, sincerity, equity, clemency!