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If the King went on so, he would excommunicate him, and make his subjects in Spain and elsewhere rise against him ; would deprive him of every grace, and summon him to give an account of the million in gold which he had drawn from the property of the Church. ' Having said this, he got up, turned his back upon the ambassador, and left the room. Olivares, who was pale with rage, quitted the room abruptly, crossed the ante-rooms without even trying to hide his emotion from the prying San- galetto ...and the crowd of courtiers who were present, 284 SLXTUS THE FIFTH. [Part VH. and who were not long before they filled Eome with the rumour of a quarrel with Spain. The secret, however, was well kept. Nicolini, who was the Grand-Duke's agent, could not get at it, though Cardinal Gesualdo had hinted so much. On both sides it was felt that each had gone too far. The Cardinal and a few of the initiated interposed. Sixtus promised to receive the ambassador on con- dition that the latter should not speak to him upon the burning question.
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