Word: ghislana
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Anyone who reads that far in The Cardinal will know that Ghislana doesn't really stand a chance of getting Stephen away from his calling. Author Henry Morton Robinson, a onetime Reader's Digest roving editor, has at this point only half digested his hero's fictional possibilities. By having Stephen confess it all to wise old Dom Arcibal, Author Robinson handily saves Stephen and his novel as well...
...Cardinal Glennon.* Now this brilliant son of a Massachusetts streetcar conductor saw both his soul and his career endangered by his love for a beautiful Italian countess. Instead of concentrating on his papal chores, he kept thinking of himself lying on the grass beneath a flowering pear tree with Ghislana Falerni...
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