The Eternal City

they had come from all quarters of the globe. To salute the coming century, and to dedicate it, in pomp and solemn ceremony

ed girl who had conquered a high place on the base of the obelisk was chat

the third floor, just on the level of the Loggia of Raphael. The Cardinal Secretary of State used to live in the rooms below, opening on the grand

pe got that secr

surrounded by his Cardinals and Bishops, to the roll of drums and the roar of cannon. All that is over now. The present Pope is trying to revive the old condition seemingly

," said the girl on the obelisk, "a

nged to the Pope-yes? Then the Italians came in

atican, going into it as a cardinal and coming out of it as a corpse, and

e see him in his

ect to see his chains and a straw of his bed in the cell? The P

ary, Majordomo, Master of Ceremonies, Steward, Chief of Police, Swiss Guards, Noble Guard and Palat

nation ... pri

s piazza on the 20th of September without the risk of insult and out

goes clear a

sat a Frenchman in a coat covered with medals, a florid, fiery-eyed old soldier with bristling white hair. Standing by his carriage door was a typ

, sir. 'When Rome falls, falls the world;' but it can alter for all that, and even this square has seen its transformations. Holy Off

rtine walls of a prison-like house

w whose pal

ent of the Council and M

you know whose pa

lsey, didn't it, in the day

the father of the Pope

family name of th

es centred in his son. 'My son,' he used to say, 'will be the richest man in Rome some day-rich

, appar

tions looking to him, he gave away every penny to the poor. That's how the old banker'

e is a good

re of the rising generation. Gave away half his inheritance founding homes all over the world for poor boys. Boys

e into the square and taken up its position in the shadow of the grim old palace. It had one occupant only-a man in a soft black hat.

gay Roman. "That man in the cab under the ba

ssi, the

all him so. Do

e man except that he is

petition to the Pope th

ossi

These are his followers wi

about the cab, with banners inscribed variously, "Garibaldi Club

ild more battleships, and Rossi has risen against him. But failing in the press, in Parliament and at the Quirinal, he is

oster

S

ity? Pretty thing to go down on your knees to the brigand who has stripped you! An

David Rossi is an

nemy the Pope ha