CHAPTER 65

Lady St. Jerome was much interested in the accounts which the cardinal and Lothair gave her of their excursions in the city and their visits.

"It is very true," she said, "I never knew such good people; and they ought to be; so favored by Heaven, and leading a life which, if any thing earthly can, must give them, however faint, some foretaste of our joys hereafter. Did your eminence visit the Pellegrini?" This was the hospital, where Miss Arundel had found Lothair.

The cardinal looked grave. "No," he replied. "My object was to secure for our young friend some interesting but not agitating distraction from certain ideas which, however admirable and transcendently important, are nevertheless too high and profound to permit their constant contemplation with impunity to our infirm natures. Besides," he added, in a lower, but still distinct tone, "I was myself unwilling to visit in a mere casual manner the scene of what I must consider the greatest event of this century."

"But you have been there?" inquired Lady St. Jerome.

His eminence crossed himself.

In the course of the evening Monsignore Catesby told Lothair that a grand service was about to be celebrated in the church of St. George: thanks were to be offered to the Blessed Virgin by Miss Arundel for the miraculous mercy vouchsafed to her in saving the life of a countryman, Lothair. "All her friends will make a point of being there," added the monsignore, "even the Protestants and some Russians. Miss Arundel was very unwilling at first to fulfil this office, but the Holy Father has commanded it. I know that nothing will induce her to ask you to attend; and yet, if I were you, I would turn it over in your mind. I know she said that she would sooner that you were present than all her English friends together. However, you can think about it. One likes to do what is proper."

Answer this series of questions:

1. what was going to happen at st george's?
2. who mentioned it?
3. Who was interested in the stories the cardinal and Lothair had?
4. what type of folks did she never know?
5. what reward should they have?
6. where was Lothair found?
7. why by?
8. who is she giving thanks to for his rescue?
9. where will her friends be?
10. even people of different faiths?
11. which are mentioned?
12. and?
13. of everyone, who would the lady rather have there?
14. was instructed to go, or told to think about it?
15. did Miss Arundel want to ask him herself?
16. Why did the priest take Lothair to the city?
17. from?
18. was there another reason?
19. did he ever answer the question about going to the hosipital

Numbered answers:
1. A grand service
2. Monsignore Catesby
3. Lady St. Jerome
4. Such good people
5. Some foretaste of our joys hereafter
6. A hospital
7. Miss Arundel
8. Miss Arundel
9. The church of St. George
10. Yes
11. the Protestants
12. Some Russians
13. Lothair
14. To think about it.
15. No
16. To secure some interesting but not agitating distraction
17. Certain ideas
18. No
19. Yes