Wolsey created cardinal, papal legate, and lord chancellor.

"Are you quite well?" asked the cardinal.

"I?" exclaimed the cardinal.

The only thing to have been desired in this case was, that he should have said so; and, in truth, at the close of the explanation which he gave on the subject to his friends at court, he didboldly desiring them, as became him, to tell the cardinal, that if his eminence expected him to be a "serf" for what he received, he should decline the bargain; and that he preferred the humblest freedom and his studies to a slavery so preposterous.

The earl, however, faced his accusers boldly; met even the great cardinal himself in a war of words, and proved to be more than his equal.

What did he say?" "He said," replied the cardinal, "that he had asked you to be his wife.

His name was Lothario, of the family of the Conti; he was nephew of a pope, and counted three cardinals among his relatives.

While the Princess Aly was practising piety and cultivating Cardinals in Rome, with an empty purse and a pain-racked body to make a mockery of her claim to a crown, away in distant Russia Catherine II. was nursing a terrible revenge on the woman who had dared to usurp her position and threaten her throne.

For a long while she did not understand their applications: when the complaints of the purveyors at last made her apprehend an intrigue, she sent for Abbe de Vermond and Baron de Breteuil, minister of the king's household both detested the cardinal, both fanned the queen's wrath; she decided at last to tell the king everything.

The English cardinal first appeared, went up and was embraced and kissed on each cheek by the Pope; then followed the others in the same manner; then each new cardinal embraced in succession all the other cardinals; after this, beginning with the English cardinal, each went to the Pope, and he, putting on their heads the cardinal's hat, blessed them in the name of the Trinity.

to dismiss his obnoxious minister, whereupon the cardinal went at once to resign the seals of office; the king repented, re-established the cardinal, and he became more powerful than ever.

He exiled those cardinals who had not appeared in the chapel, forbade them to appear in their red robes thenceforth, and condemned them to the black penitent's dress.

He was quite seriously entertaining the idea of renting the "pretty little house" in common with his uncle Fesch afterward the cardinal, when the important events that soon shook Paris once more prevented him, and the famous 13th Vendémiaire, 1795, again summoned the famous general away from his meditations to stern practical activity.

Protestantism was only tolerated, and the country distracted rather than impoverished by the civil war of the Fronde, with its intrigues and ever-shifting parties,a giddy maze, which nobody now cares to unravel; a sort of dance of death, in which figured cardinals, princes, nobles, bishops, judges, and generals,when "Bacchus, Momus, and Moloch" alternately usurped dominion.

But it happened that, the very next night, the officers of justice, breaking into a disorderly house, found the cardinal in bed with a courtezan

" Even this avowal the Cardinal de Roche-Aymer promised Madame du Barri to suppress; but the royal confessor, the Abbé Mandoux, overruled him, and compelled its publication, in spite of the Duc de Richelieu, the chief confidant of the mistress, and long the chief minister and promoter of the king's debaucheries, who insulted the cardinal with the grossest abuse for his breach of promise.

He was very amiable all the same and told me a great many useful thingsfor instance, that I must never invite a cardinal and an ambassador together, as neither of them would yield the precedence and I would find myself in a very awkward position.

Near the Holy Sacrament marched the cardinals, bishops, and archbishops elected to the States-General, and in the throng Calvert quickly and easily detected by his halting step his acquaintance, the Bishop of Autun.

The appendages of the piece need only be few and simple; little more than the crozier and red hat to mark the cardinal and tell the story.

She would have yielded gradually, and then gained upon them gradually; she would have managed them to the point she had designed them, as she did all parties in France; and none could effectually subject her but the very man she had raised to be her principal supportI mean the cardinal.

" "Still the three braves!" muttered the cardinal.

The head steward appeared so quickly that he overheard the cardinal say"I certainly should have done it, at his age.

The death of Duke Francis, murdered in front of Orleans by Poltrot, did not permit the cardinal to carry out his plan.

Cardinals' dresses exquisitely plaited; sixty-two cardinals in attendance....

It is affirmed that it produced seventy cardinals, four hundred and sixty bishops, and four popes.