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By this
system of spiritual control he could be sure of finding a successor
sooner or later. Besides, the defection of this favourite disciple was
only a drop in the ocean of his griefs. What secretly preyed upon his
mind was that, on the verge of returning to his former state of worldly
prosperity, he had been inspired to issue that Second Revelation
regarding warm-blooded beasts. He ought to have known about the Grand
Dukes, and what a sacrilegious hot-tempered clique they were! "This
comes," he would say, "of placing the service of God above that of my
earthly masters." It kept him in exile on this island--the deadlock in
the matter of that Second Revelation. The expiatory period was not yet
over, though Nepenthe, on the whole, would have been glad to see the
last of him--particularly Signor Malipizzo.
Meanwhile, the Little White Cows lived on: the richer in houses,
sleeping fifteen or twenty in one room after the happy style of
patriarchal Russia--the humbler folk in old ruins, sheds, cellars, or
even caverns of the rock.


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