human
Was the priest living?
gpt
Oh, no; he had been dead two years. A most excellent man--a saint,
human
Good priests are like good women, said the peasant, drily;
gpt
My belief, Eccellenza, is, that the priest did all the mischief.
human
What mischief?
gpt
Persuaded the Signora to leave her husband. The Inglese was not a Catholic. I heard the priest call him a heretic. And the padre, who, though not so bad as some of his cloth, was a meddling bigot, thought it perhaps best for her soul that it should part company with a heretic's person. I can't say for sure, but I think that was it. The padre seemed to triumph when the Signora was gone.