So the file descended, the colours fading, the shadows deepening, till it reached a baby porporato of the last century, who had donned the cardinal's habit at four, and stood rigid and a little pale in his red robes and lace, with a crucifix and a skull on the table to which the top of his Berretta hardly reached.
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton
The stockings, gloves, skull cap and Berretta are of scarlet.
"Rome"
Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker Hope Malleson