The ex-major-domo of the apostolic palace hemmed;--and prayed for permission to send for his diary. Then he bravely proceeded. "M-ym-ym-ym: Twenty-ninth September. At 15 o'clock, I drove by the Fort of Monte Mario to the Milvian Bridge: and walked a little in the fields. The sky was cloudy. Afterwards I drove by Via Flaminia and Pincio to Countess Demochede's villino; and sent away my carriage. I obtained news of the German Emperor. Her Excellency's daughter the Princess Neri was there. Tea and very agreeable conversation. The Princess expatiated on the virtues of pedestrianism. She and her beautiful mother derided me when I said that I was about to walk to Vatican. I went to Palazzo Attendolo to inquire for Don Umberto. He had bought a new horse, a strawberry-roan, and was gone to Cinthyanum to try him. That young man always is buying horses--m-ym-ym. Returned to Vatican at 19 o'clock. Said Mattins and Lauds. Wrote to--m-ym-ym,--wrote four letters, Holiness. Supper, capretto ai ferri and zuppa inglese. Gave my news of the German Emperor to our Most Holy Lord. Read Chap. IX., 1, of Matthew Arnold's _Literature and Dogma_ with Δ. Semphill. Conversed with that deacon about it till bed-time. He says that it is not a book to fear. In my opinion it is a wonderful book but shocking, and likely to cause misunderstanding except among the English: but it is not damnable, though many will think so. Sancte Francisce, ora pro me." He was about to sit-down; and the College was about to open twenty-three mouths: but Hadrian with the left hand signed him to approach the throne, and with the right simultaneously beckoned a master-of-ceremonies in a red habit and a violet cloak. Cardinal Berstein interpolated with a recondite sneer, "The phenomenon of bi-location, as exemplified in the case of St. Philip Neri, is well-known. But this is not the case of a saint." Hadrian wiped the floor with the sneerer. "Nor was the case of Samian Pythagoras, divine, golden-thighed, (if Your Eminency ever heard of him), the case of a saint. Yet, inasmuch as Pythagoras was heard to lecture at Metapontion and Tayromenion on the same day and at the same hour, he would appear to have been an exemplification of the phenomenon of bi-location. However, this is neither the case of a saint, as you so acutely have observed: nor a case of bi-location, as you so hilariously would pretend." He flung the retort at the cardinal with such force that Berstein sought his seat with not innocuous concussion. "Lord Cardinals, the voice of the snake and the voice of the goose are one and the same. They both hiss:" the Pope added before moving again.