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The remark was not original with Donna Tullia, but had been reported to
her as Spicca's, and Spicca had really said something similar about
somebody else.
"I had not got that impression," said Maria Consuelo, quietly.
"She hates him, too," she thought. "She seems to hate everybody. That
either means that she knows everybody, or is not received in society."
"But of course you know him better than I do," she added aloud, after a
little pause.
At that moment a strain of music broke out above the great, soft,
muffled whispering that filled the basilica. Some thirty chosen voices
of the choir of Saint Peter's had begun the hymn "Tu es Petrus," as the
procession began to defile from the south aisle into the nave, close by
the great door, to traverse the whole distance thence to the high altar.
The Pope's own choir, consisting solely of the singers of the Sixtine
Chapel, waited silently behind the lattice under the statue of Saint
Veronica.
The song rang out louder and louder, simple and grand.


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