Ah, he thought, but he was something, this Cardinal Tremblay! A North American who was not an American, a French-speaker who was not a Frenchman, a doctrinal liberal who was also a social conservative (or was it the other way round?), a champion of the Third World and the epitome of the First—how foolishly Lomeli had underestimated him! Already he noticed the Canadian did not have to fetch his own coffee any more—Sabbadin collected it on his behalf—and then the Archbishop of Milan accompanied Tremblay over to a group of Italian cardinals, who deferred to him at once, widening their circle to
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