The purpose that lay behind his coming was one which he had not felt called upon to explain, and though he had much to learn of this new place of abode, still he had come forearmed with some of the cardinals of a necessary understanding.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
He mentioned it to several cardinals and to me also.
"The Saint"
Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer
"And then," the Pope continued, as if he had not heard him, "I am old; I am weary; the cardinals do not know whom they have placed here.
"The Saint"
Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer