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420 it, Charles consented also to waive his objections to the interview between Francis and the Pope, on which he had looked hitherto with so much suspicion; provided that the Pope would bear in mind some mysterious and unknown communication which had passed at Bologna.

Thus was Francis won. He cared only, as the Pope had seen, for his own interests; and from this time he drew away, by imperceptible degrees, from his engagements to England. He did not stoop to dishonour or treacherous betrayal of confidence, for with all his faults he was, in the technical acceptation of that misused