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"But if I tell you his very words--"

"But, Renzo, he does not know--"

"But can you not comprehend, when such a man speaks, it is God

who speaks in him, and that he would not have spoken thus, if it

ought not to be exactly so? And the soul of this unfortunate! I

have prayed, and will pray for him; I have prayed with all my

heart, as if he were my brother. But what, think you, will be his

condition in the other world, if we do not repair some of the

evil he has done? If you return to reason, all will be set in

order. That which has been, has been-he has had his punishment

here below--"

"No, Renzo, no! God would not have us do evil that good may come.

Leave to him the care of this unfortunate man; our duty is to

pray for him. If I had died that fatal night, would not God have

been able to pardon him? And if I am not dead, if I have been

delivered--"

"And your mother, poor Agnes, who desired so much to see us man

and wife, has she not told you it was a foolish imagination?"