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Meanwhile Friedrich, neither expelled nor dismissed, was quietly residing in Rome and copying this extract into his diary, with the thoughtful reflection: "I wonder what part I am destined to play in an Ultramontane history of the Vatican Council." Thus Friedrich heard and saw many things. He heard Bishop Hefele, on a visit to Cardinal Hohenlohe, say that for thirty years he had sought for evidence on Infallibility, and had never found it. To the same house Hefele returned another day with a copy of his pamphlet against Honorius. The chief value of the work to Friedrich's mind consisted in the fact that, as Bishop, Hefele did not repudiate German theology.

Friedrich's own line of action if the doctrine became decreed was perfectly clear. He had no intention of bowing before the storm, or of yielding an external acquiescence to that which he inwardly discredited. A criticism which appeared in the Univers indicated, in the plainest terms, the future alternatives awaiting the adherents of Janus, and indeed the opposition in general.

"Are they decided," asked Veuillot, "to remain Catholics after the Definition? If they say no, their