Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

CHAPTER XVIII.
Bedini recalled from Brasil in disgrace - Re-establishga 11: mself in
favor with the Papal Court by acting the spy-Proves traitor to
the Republic-Is guilty of the death of Ugo Bassi.
NOT long was Bedini destined to "ear unsullied
his new honors, which sat upon him with so little
grace. His secretary, Don Tintori, and every one he
took with him in his suite to Bra ,abandoned him
at the expiration of two months, on account of the
dissoluteness of his conduct. The prelates of Brazil
made such numerous and loud complaints to the Pope,
of Bedini, that he was recalled in a few months, and
ordered to leave immediately, without awaiting his
successor. Returning to Rome, he received a subordinate
appointment in the state department as a mark
of' punishment. It was not long, however, till he'
managed to re-establish himself in favor with the
Papal court, and cause his vices to be overlooked.
This he accomplished by again acting the spy. To
pass over numero,us acts of servility and intrigue
which served to ingratiate him with the Pope, we
will proceed to notice that of his basely proving traitor
to the Republic of which he was a subject in 1849,
and becoming the spy of the Pope in the city of
Bologna, for which crime, according to the laws sane-
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