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 \nObscure Destinies  \nThe Old Beauty and Others One of Ours The Professor’s House Sapphira and the Slave Girl Shadows on the Rock The Song of the Lark The Troll Garden  \nUncle Valentine and Other Stories  \nYouth and the Bright Medusa  \nVINTAGE CLASSICS EDITION, JUNE 1990  \nCopyright 1927 by Willa Cather  \nCopyright renewed 1955 by the Executors of the Estate of  \nWilla Cather  \nAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc, New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto Originally published by Alfred A Knopf, Inc, in 1927  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nCather, Willa 1873–1947  \nDeath comes to the archbishop / Willa Cather  \np cm  \nReprint Originally published: New York: Vintage Books, 1971 eISBN: 978-0-307-80522-5  \n1 New Mexico—History—1848– —Fiction I Title  \nPS3505 A87D4 1990  \n813′ 52—dc20 89-40540  \nv3.1  \nCONTENTS  \nCover  \nOther Books by This Author Title Page  \nCopyright Prologue  \nPart 1-The Vicar Apostolic  \n1 The Cruciform Tree  \n2 Hidden Water  \n3 The Bishop Chez Lui  \n4 A Bell and a Miracle  \nPart 2-Missionary Journeys  \n1 The White Mules  \n2 The Lonely Road to Mora Part 3-The Mass at Ácoma  \n1 The Wooden Parrot  \n2 Jacinto  \n3 The Rock  \n4 The Legend of Fray Baltazar  \nPart 4-Snake Root  \n1 The Night at Pecos  \n2 Stone Lips  \nPart 5-Padre Martinez  \n1 The Old Order  \n2 The Miser  \nPart 6-Doña Isabella  \n1 Don Antonio  \n2 The Lady  \nPart 7-The Great Diocese  \n1 The Month of Mary  \n2 December Night  \n3 Spring in the Navajo Country  \n4 Eusabio  \nPart 8-Gold under Pike’s Peak  \n1 Cathedral  \n2 A Letter from Leavenworth  \n3 Auspice Maria!  \nPart 9-Death Comes for the Archbishop 1  \n2  \n3  \n4  \n5  \n6  \n7  \n8  \nAbout the Author  \nPROLOGUE  \nAt Rome  \nOne summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a  \nmissionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome. The villa was famous for the ɹne view from its terrace. The hidden garden in which the four men sat at table lay some twenty feet below the south end of this terrace, and was a mere shelf of rock, overhanging a steep declivity planted with vineyards. A ɻight of stone steps connected it with the promenade above. The table stood in a sanded square, among potted orange and oleander trees, shaded by spreading ilex oaks that grew out of the rocks overhead. Beyond the balustrade was the drop into the air, and far below the landscape stretched soft and undulating; there was nothing to arrest the eye until it reached Rome itself.  \nIt was early when the Spanish Cardinal and his guests sat down to dinner. The sun was still good for an hour of supreme splendour, and across the shining folds of country the low proɹle of the city barely fretted the skyline—indistinct except for the dome of St. Peter’s, bluish grey like the ɻattened top of a great balloon, just a ɻash of copper light on its soft metallic surface. The Cardinal had an eccentric preference for beginning his dinner at this time in the late afternoon, when the vehemence of the sun suggested motion. The light was full of action and had a peculiar quality of climax—of splendid ɹnish. It was both intense and soft, with a ruddiness as of much-multiplied candlelight, an aura of red in its ɻames. It bored into the ilex trees, illuminating their mahogany trunks and blurring their dark foliage; it warmed the bright green of the orange trees and the rose of the oleander blooms to gold; sent congested spiral patterns quivering over the damask and plate and crystal. The churchmen kept their rectangular clerical caps on their heads to protect them from the sun. 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