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"That God has touched your heart, and is drawing you to himself,"

replied the cardinal calmly.

"God! God! If I could see! If I could hear him! Where is God?"

"Do you ask me? you! And who more than yourself has felt his

presence? Do you not now feel him in your heart, disturbing,

agitating you, not leaving you a moment of repose, and at the

same time drawing you towards him, and imparting a hope of

tranquillity and of consolation; of consolation which shall be

full and unlimited, as soon as you acknowledge Him, confess your

sins, and implore his mercy!"

"Oh! yes, yes; something indeed oppresses, something consumes me.

But God-if it be God, if it be He, of whom you speak, what can he

do with me?"