Storia do Mogor 364.9

364.9

In spite of that, however, after writing those words, and after receiving the decrees from Rome which restored us to the cure taken from us by [291] his Lordship against his will, he having had the greatest difficulty in making up his mind to it, we are surprised to find he makes no attempt to put the said decrees into execution. Nay, when we ask him to remember what he told us so often with his own lips and has so plainly written — namely, that he had done violence to his own feelings in taking the cure of the Malabāris away from the Capuchin fathers, and giving it to the reverend Jesuit fathers — he replies now quite to the contrary of what he wrote at first. He now says : ' I know not what change it is that your Reverence says you find in me in regard to your Reverences ; still, as I am now so old, I do not recollect what I said to your Reverence about making the transfer in opposition to my natural inclination.' Having regard to all this, how is it possible for his Lordship to complain if we have not relied upon his words, when to-day he writes one thing and to-morrow the contrary ?