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 116 immured Cardinals shall have ruled its suspension. Often, however, this preliminary work of clearance has proved a task of trouble, and Masters of the Ceremonies have been driven distracted by the occasional obduracy of ambassadors in not giving heed to the tingling summonses, and their haughty disregard of earnest supplications to conclude final conferences with confidential Cardinals.