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"Yes, yes," said Renzo, with much emotion, "I feel that I have

never truly pardoned him; I have spoken as a brute and not as a

Christian; and now, by the help of God, I pardon him from the

bottom of my soul."

"And should you see him?"

"I would pray God to grant me patience, and to touch his heart."

"Do you remember that the Lord has not only told us to pardon our

enemies, but to love them? Do you remember that he loved them so

as to die for them?"

"Yes, I do."

"Well, come and behold him. You have said you would find him; you

shall do so; come, and you will see against whom you preserve

hatred, to whom you desire evil, against what life you would arm

yourself!"