Free Stories Toto Told Me (Valancourt Classics) by Barón Corvo, Frederick Rolfe Page B

baby Angelo to the house of the respectable man, and it is not for that that I blame them. You must see that when the new baby Angelo had come, and died a Christian, there was nothing else for them to do but to bury him in their churchyard; and that secretly, to defend la Signora Pucci from shame; and after all you must see that there are yards and yards and yards of ground in that churchyard where this dead Christian baby Angelo could be buried by himself secretly, and that it is simply abominable to have put him into the grave of a Jesuit, which, being opened, as it may at any time—God knows when or why, but it is quite likely—will bring a great dishonour and a foul blot upon the sons of Sant’Ignazio of Loyola.”
      I said that I saw.

Thus ended the sixth of the nine and forty Stories Toto Told Me: wherein have been contained high and great matters concerning the noble army of martyrs and all the company of heaven with other divers legends histories and acts as all along hereafore is made mention. Which works I have so far written down for the first time at the commandment and request of my special patron John Lane, and have finished at Corvicastra in Aria on the feast of the good thief Saint Dismas the year of Our Lord m viijc xc viij and the lx i year of the reign of Queen Victoria. By me Baron Corvo. Printed for John Lane by John Wilson & Son at the University Press Cambridge Mass., in August m viijc xc viij