Last tales [antikvár]

THE CARDINAL'S FIRST TALE ho are you?" the lady in black asked Cardinal SalviatL The Cardinal looked up, met the gaze of her wide-open eyes and smiled very gently. "Who am I?" he repeated. "Verily, Madame, you are the first of my penitents who has ever asked me that question— the first, indeed, who has ever seemed to presume that I might have an identity of my own to confess to. I was not < prepared for your question." ¦, The lady remained standing up straight before him; with- \ out taking her eyes off his face, she mechanically pulled on her long gloves. f "Men and women," the Cardinal went on, "in the course ?f of time have come to me and have asked my advice. Many of ^ them have come in deep distress " i