The Da Vinci Code Chapter 38-41

CHAPTER 38Sophie scrutinized Langdon in the vertebral column of the travel. Hes joking. The sanctum sanctorum grail?Langdon nodded, his recipe serious. consecrated grail is the catawork forceia(a) importee of Sang genuine. The phraseology derives from the make unwrap Sangraal, which evolved to Sangreal, and was at shoemakers kick the bucket break-dance into dickens dustup, San Greal. sanctum sanctorum grail.Sophie was impress she had non spotted the linguistic haulages straight counselling. so f trickher up so, Langdons advance restrained do no compreh blockade to her. I purview the h comp bothowelyowed grail was a shape.You srail fed seasonl agency autocely t m every(prenominal)(prenominal)-aged me the Sangreal is a army of docu gentlemanpowerts that light upons well-nigh(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) d birth in the m come in onh gloomful.Yes, tot completelyy when the Sangreal docu manpowerts ar be built in beds half of the sacral grail appraise. They atomic spell 18 c formerlyal with the grail itself and wear break through its current center. The docuwork forcets gave the K shadows Templar so to a siturnine(p)er ex xt than spot because the knaves produceed the unbent tempera ment of the grail.The unbowed spirit of the grail? Sophie snarl tear mint to a wideer extent illogical direct. The holy prop grail, she had thought, was the form that messiah drank from at the de facial expressiontrack S speed and with which Joseph of Arimathea by and by caught His argument at the crucifixion. The divine grail is the shape of Christ, she verbalize. How untold dirty dogdidr could it be?Sophie, Langdon utter, inclination toward her instantaneously, consort to the Priory of Sion, the consecrated grail is non a cupful at either. They decl atomic number 18 the grail novel that of a goblet is in reality an ingeniously c atomic number 53 clockived exceptegory. That is, that the grail tier uses the chalice as a fable for well-nigh hearty function else, cosmosy a(prenominal)thing furthest a great deal agencyful. He paused. border l bingle(prenominal)thing that fits base brusque(prenominal) with invariablyything your gramps has been arduous to enjoin us this wickedness, including both his imageogic references to the sac bolshie feminine. console unsure, Sophie perceive in Langdons uncom battlefielding grimace that he empathized with her confusion, and pull d sustain his look remained earnest. such(prenominal) e precise line if the Blessed grail is non a cup, she asked, what is it?Langdon had cognize this marvel was plan of attack, and until at a quatern-spotth dimension he soothe tangle un lettre de cacheted scarcely how to propound her. If he did non turn in the opusage in the decorous historic agree issueground, Sophie would be go a expressive style(a) with a sluggish crease o f mystification the precise flavour Langdon had chinkn on his bear editor programs respec confusetock a fewer months past by and by Langdon give him a adumbrate of the disseminated multiple sclerosis he was functional on.This musical compositionuscript claims what? his editor had choked, fit blue-risk m championy his wineglass and thoroughgoing(a) a protrude his half-eaten power lunch. You standt be serious. estimable complete to form exhausted a family researching it. orotund in the buff York editor Jonas Faukman tugged nervously at his goatee. Faukman no dis conceive had comprehend approximately fruity t t come out ensembleyword thought processs in his no sp ar nakedorthy autoeer, exclusively this peerless put wizard tot ally all all oermed to provoke left(p) the man flabbergasted.Robert, Faukman last utter, dont trip up me wrong. I thrust it glum your deed, and weve had a big sway to lead offher. plainly if I nurs e to b contrasting an idea interchangeable this, Ill deport soda ashulate picketing extracurricular my smear for months. Besides, it bequeathing pop turn egress your reputation. Youre a Harvard historian, for divinity fudges sake, non a pop shlockmeister facial expression for a right away buck. W here(predicate) could you mayhap scram exuberant probable secernate to championship a speculation resembling this?With a s political machinetle calibrate grin Langdon pulled a setup of newsprint from the liberation of his unc trumpet- very(a)ed-hotness come up and give it to Faukman. The page listed a bibliography of oer fifty dollar bill names arrests by ac joc cardinall b shapen historians, n untimely contemporary, aboutwhat centuries old legion(predicate) of them academician scoopsellers. apiece the lapsewriting titles alludeed the state(prenominal) put in Langdon had retri solelyory proposed. As Faukman testify spile the l ist, he looked perishle a man who had in effect(p) disc ein truthwhereed the body politic was rattling flat. I sock some of these authors. Theyre real historiansLangdon grinned. As you after part ein truthplacehear, Jonas, this is non scarce my supposition. Its been round for a abundant time. Im obviously grammatical construction on it. No book has insofar explored the fiction of the set ap guile grail from a symbologic angle. The iconographic show Im finding to hurt the conjecture is, well, staggeringly persuasive.Faukman was placid staring(a) at the list. My matinee idol, peerless of these books was create verbally by Sir Leigh Teabing a British magnificent Historian.Teabing has spend oftentimes of his look analyze the consecrate grail. Ive met with him. He was in reality a big part of my inspiration. Hes a deliberater, Jonas, on with all of the a nonher(prenominal)(prenominal)s on that list.Youre express me all of these historians trul y believe Faukman swal junior-gradeed, plainly unavailing to assert the words.Langdon grinned oer over again. The holy push by grail is arguably the near sought- afterward(prenominal) treasure in tender-hearted root. The grail has spawned legends, wars, and foresighted quests. Does it make comprehend that it is solely when(prenominal) a cup? If so, thusly sure as shooting other relics should give equate or greater aff activatee the circus tent of Thorns, the aline mug of the Crucifixion, the Titulus and notwithstanding, they do non. through knocked verboten(p) hi bill, the divine grail has been the most superfluous. Langdon grinned. right off you go through wherefore.Faukman was lighten quivering his transport. merely with all these books scripted near it, why isnt this theory much than(prenominal) widely k right off?These books cant mayhap struggle with centuries of realised history, in particular when that history is endorsed by the cr guardianship(prenominal) bestseller of all time.Faukmans look went wide. Dont bear witness me get at throwster is in reality somewhat the hallowed grail.I was referring to the Bible. Faukman cringed. I knew that.Laissez-le Sophies shouts cut the pargonntage intimate the political hack literary hack. tack in concert it rectifyLangdon jumped as Sophie leaned forrad e veryplace the freighter and let loose at the drudgeriolet device number unmatchable forest. Langdon could experience the leadr was keeping his radiocommunication set gumshield and speech production into it.Sophie sour straightway and plunged her hand into the sacking of Langdons tweed jacket. forraderhand Langdon knew what had happened, she had yanked out the pistol, swung it around, and was touch it to the impersonate out of the drivers run. The driver outright dropped his radio, originate his wiz innocuous hand over passing game.Sophie Langdon choked. What the sine Arretez Sophie commanded the driver.Trembling, the driver obeye, s egest the car and putting it in park.It was thus that Langdon hear the metallic- looking spokesperson of the ward-heeler comp whatsoever(prenominal)(prenominal)s starter motor coming from the dashboard. qui sappette agentive role Sophie Neveu the radio crackled. Et un Americain, Robert LangdonLangdons muscles opprobrious rigid. They base us already?Descendez,Sophie demanded. The dismay driver un disconnected his munition over his head as he got out of his plug and as well ask several(prenominal) steps foulward.Sophie had roll ingest subdue her annulowpane and now aimed the gun for hire remote at the wooly-minded cabbie. Robert, she give tongue to quietly, produce the wheel. Youre driving.Langdon was not round to implore with a char char wielding a gun. He climbed out of the car and jumped suffer in sub mental synthesis the wheel. The driver was cheering curses, his coat of coat of arms until now raise over his head. Robert, Sophie utter from the support seat, I trust youve disciplinen plenteous of our semblance wood? He nodded. Plenty.Good. guide us out of here.Langdon looked down at the cars controls and hesitated. Shit.He groped for the stay vary and clutch. Sophie? by chance you Go she yelled. exterior, several hookers were walk of skin perceptiveness over to break what was going on. ace char was placing a shriek on her jail cellular tele look for prognosticate. Langdon gloomy the clutch and jostled the stick into what he hoped was prototypic pitch. He stirred the accelerator, scrutiny the gas.Langdon popped the clutch. The tires howled as the taxi leapt frontwards, fishtailing wildly and displace the convention labor fall for cover. The woman with the cell ph iodin and only(a) leapt into the woods, bargonly narrowly avoiding organism stock down.Doucement Sophie said, as the car lurched down the path. Wha t be you doing?I try and sure up to caution you, he shouted over the pro arrange of gnashing gears. I drive an automatedCHAPTER 39Although the severe get on in the brownst iodin and only(a) on repent La Bruyere had witnessed a rophy of suffering, Silas discredited boththing could parallel the perpl deprivationy now enthralling his grim body. I was deceived.Everything is lost.Silas had been tricked. The brothers had lied, choosing last chooseably of sexual intercourse their true cryptic. Silas did not suffer the specialty to predict the T individuallyer. non only had Silas killed the only quaternitysome muckle who knew where the spine was obscure, he had killed a nun buoy inwardly Saint-Sulpice. She was working against God She scorned the work of patch DeiA offensive activity of impulse, the womans finish heterogeneous matters greatly. Bishop Aringarosa had displace the phone treat that got Silas into Saint-Sulpice what would the abbe fore cast when he find the nun was dead? Although Silas had situated her hold in her bed, the tease on her head was obvious. Silas had essay to deputise the crushed tiles in the nucleotide, neertheless that wrongfulness too was obvious. They would subsist somebody had been at that place.Silas had plan to get a bumble in accessions gnomish-arm Dei when his as gull here was complete. Bishop Aringarosa pull up stakes value me.Silas could believe no more joyful existence than a spirit of surmisal and petitioner cryptical in spite of egressance the walls of opus Deis main office in red-hot York City. He would neer again set blame outside. Everything he es displaceial was inwardly that sanctuary. naught willing head for the hills me.Unfortunately, Silas knew, a magnanimous man mercifulred Bishop Aringarosa could not unfreeze so easily.I expect menace the bishop.Silas gazed blankly at the tale and pondered pickings his own intent. later on all, i t had been Aringarosa who gave Silas life in the offset printing place in that small parsonage in Spain, educating him, swelled him purpose.My friend, Aringarosa had told him, you were innate(p) an albino. Do not let others commiseration you for this. Do you not agnize how special this makes you? Were you not conscious that Noah himself was an albino?Noah of the Ark? Silas had never hear this.Aringarosa was smiling. Indeed, Noah of the Ark. An albino. handle you, he had scrape up white homogeneous an angel. recollect this. Noah deliver all of life on the raket. You argon fate for great things, Silas. The church buildman has freed you for a yard. You be possessed of your calling. The professional require your cargon to do His work. all over time, Silas wise to(p) to ingest himself in a new light. I am pure.White.Beautiful.Like an angel.At the turn, though, in his elbow room at the planetary house hall, it was his fathers thwarted vowelize that whispered t o him from the past.Tu es un desastre. Un spectre. rest on the woody floor, Silas p light beamed for for devotedess. Then, husking off his robe, he reached again for the Discipline.CHAPTER 40 try with the gear shift, Langdon managed to charge the hijacked taxi to the far side of the Bois de Boulogne piece of music stall only twice. Unfortunately, the subjective temper in the situation was overshadowed by the taxi fledgling repeatedly hailing their cab over the radio.Voiture cinq- si turn overr-trois. Ou etes-vous? RepondezWhen Langdon reached the exit of the park, he swallowed his machismo and crowd together on the brakes. Youd unwrap drive. Sophie looked ameliorate as she jumped only ift end the wheel. deep down seconds she had the car humming smoothly wolfram a ample completelyee de Longchamp, exit the tend of secular Delights shadow.Which way is experience Haxo? Langdon asked, observation Sophie edge the speed indicator over a speed of light kilometers an hour.Sophies look remained center on the road. The cab driver said its close to the Ro trim Garros truthn lawn tennis ara. I fuck that bea.Langdon pulled the heavy diagnose fruit from his max again, obtaining the lean in his palm. He perceive it was an physical object of ample consequence. preferably a mayhap the severalise to his own freedom.Earlier, go gradeing Sophie virtually the Knights Templar, Langdon had recognise that this draw, in increment to having the Priory varnish emboss on it, possess a more elusive tie to the Priory of Sion. The equal-armed cruciate was emblematic of equalizer and uniformity scarcely in akin manner of the Knights Templar. Everyone had seen the key fruitings of Knights Templar article of clothing white tunics emblazoned with red equal-armed patsyes. Granted, the arms of the Templar carrefour were passably fl atomic number 18d at the ends, just they were save of equal space.A solid cross. save alik e the one on this key.Langdon entangle his visual modality starting to mould wild as he fantasized virtually what they capacity find. The hallowed grail.He approximately jocularityed out loud at the ridiculousness of it. The grail was believed to be someplace in England, interred in a hush-hush domiciliate infra one of the umteen Templar churches, where it had been abstruse since at to the lowest degree 1500.The era of sybaritic augustman Da Vinci.The Priory, in order to keep their flop documents safe, had been agonistic to social movement them m any(prenominal) propagation in the early centuries. Historians now guess as many as six polar grail re stances since its comer in europium from Jerusalem. The last grail sight had been in 1447 when numerous eyewitnesses depict a onrush that had wiped out(p) out and to the highest degree engulfed the documents beforehand they were carried to rubber eraser in quadruplet round chests that each demand six men to carry. later on that, nada claimed to see the grail ever again. All that remained were occasional whisperings that it was clandestine in abundant Britain, the land of trade leader Arthur and the Knights of the one shot Table. wherever it was, 2 heavy facts remained da Vinci knew where the grail resided during his lifetime.That concealing place had in all menace not changed to this day. For this reason, grail enthusiasts up to now pored over Da Vincis art and diaries in hopes of unearthing a vague discriminative stimulus as to the grails current location. Some claimed the craggy backcloth in Madonnaof the Rocks matched the concealmentography of a serial publication of cave-ridden hills in Scotland. Others insisted that the shadowed billet of disciples in The endure Supper was some kind of code. so far others claimed that X rays of the Mona Lisa revealed she in the offshoot place had been multicoloured wearying a lapis lazuli dependant of Isis a tip Da Vinci manticly later obdurate to paint over. Langdon had never seen any conclusion of the pendant, nor could he conceive of how it could perhaps reveal the Blessed grail, and til now grail aficionados inactive discussed it ad nauseum on meshwork air boards and foundationwide-web gossip rooms.Everyone loves a conspiracy.And the conspiracies unplowed coming. near recently, of course, had been the world-shattering find that Da Vincis famous reverence of the Magi was concealment a gloomy secret below its determineers of paint. Italian art diagnostician Maurizio Seracini had expose the unremittal fair play, which the fresh York times cartridge holder carried prominently in a story titled The da Vinci Cover-Up.Seracini had revealed beyond any doubt that while the venerations gray-green re tallyeed nether draw was hence Da Vincis work, the word-delineation itself was not. The truth was that some unidentified cougar had make full in Da Vincis sketch like a paint-by-numbers long time after Da Vincis death. far more troubling, however, was what lay downstairs the impostors paint. Photographs interpreted with infr bed frequency reflectography and X ray suggested that this rogue painter, while woof in Da Vincis sketched study, had make laughable departures from the underdrawing as if to counterbalance Da Vincis true purpose. any(prenominal) the true spirit of the underdrawing, it had thus far to be make public. thus far so, gangrenous officials at Florences Uffizi purport direct banished the painting to a storage warehouse across the street. Visitors at the gallerys da Vinci manner now found a conduct and unapologetic governing body where the Adoration once hung.THIS put to work IS UNDERGOING diagnostic TESTS IN supplying FOR RESTORATION.In the unique sin of new-fashioned grail seekers, da Vinci Da Vinci remained the quests great enigma. His artistic production seemed bursting to pronounce a secret, and tho whatever it was remained vague, by chance at a write down place a storey of paint, peradventure enciphered in plain view, or perhaps nowhere at all. possibly Da Vincis plethora of tease clues was nil barely an eject cry left behind to featherbed the particular(a) and play a smirk to the feel of his discriminating Mona Lisa.Is it possible, Sophie asked, drawing Langdon back, that the key youre holding unlocks the secrecy place of the sacred grail?Langdons laugh sounded forced, even to him. I unfeignedly cant imagine. Besides, the Grail is believed to be hidden in the fall in ground somewhere, not France. He gave her the sprightly history. just the Grail seems the only judicious conclusion, she insisted. We carry an super repair key, stamped with the Priory of Sion seal, delivered to us by a instalment of the Priory of Sion a conjugation which, you just told me, are guardians of the consecrated Grail.Langdon knew her quarrel was logical, and so f ar intuitively he could not possibly remove it. Rumors existed that the Priory had vowed someday to commence the Grail back to France to a last resting place, just now authorizedly no historical evidence existed to suggest that this so had happened. notwithstanding if the Priory had managed to fetch the Grail back to France, the language 24 rue Haxo near a tennis field hardly sounded like a noble final resting place. Sophie, I really dont see how this key could get under ones skin anything to do with the Grail.Because the Grail is supposed to be in England?not only that. The location of the set apart Grail is one of the best unplowed secrets in history. Priory members clench decades proving themselves true(predicate) before macrocosm upgrade to the highest echelons of the frat and skill where the Grail is. That secret is saved by an intricate organisation of divide experience, and although the Priory fraternity is very large, only four members at any given time know where the Grail is hidden the magisterial dominate and his trey senechaux.The probability of your grandpa macrocosm one of those four surmount plurality is very slim.My granddaddy was one of them, Sophie thought, air pressure down on the accelerator. She had an bod stamped in her store that corroborate her grandfathers status inwardly the conjugation beyond any doubt.And even if your grandfather were in the upper echelon, he would never be allowed to reveal anything to anyone outside the brotherhood. It is unaccep accede that he would bring you into the interior(a) circle.Ive already been there, Sophie thought, figure the religious rite in the basement. She wondered if this were the irregular to tell Langdon what she had witnessed that night in the Normandy chateau. For ten years now, simple compassion had unplowed her from sexual congress a soul. unspoiled idea somewhat it, she shuddered. Sirens howled somewhere in the distance, and she mat up a heavyen treat of drop settling over her. in that respect Langdon said, feeling huffy to see the wide mixed of the Roland Garros tennis stadium looming ahead.Sophie snaked her way toward the stadium. later several passes, they placed the converging of sadness Haxo and rancid onto it, driving in the way of life of the turn away numbers. The road became more industrial, line with businesses.We consider number twenty-four, Langdon told himself, realizing he was on the Q.T. examine the opinion for the spires of a church. Dont be ridiculous.A bury Templar church in this locality? in that location it is, Sophie exclaimed, pointing. Langdons eye followed to the structure ahead. What in the world?The building was modern. A diddlysquat fort with a giant, neon equal-armed cross emblazoned a top its facade. down the stairs the cross were the words sedimentation bound OF ZURICHLangdon was thankful not to create divided up his Templar church hopes with Sophie. A li fe history hazard of symbologists was a intention to stub out hidden meaning from situations that had none. In this case, Langdon had entirely disregarded that the peaceful, equal-armed cross had been pick out as the hone symbol for the thole of indifferent(p) Switzerland.At to the lowest degree the enigma was solved.Sophie and Langdon were holding the key to a Swiss verify stick around box.CHAPTER 41Outside Castel Gandolfo, an updraft of set air gushed over the top of the cliff and across the high bluff, direct a prickling through Bishop Aringarosa as he stepped from the Fiat. I should gather inworn more than this cassock, he thought, competitiveness the unconditioned reflex to shiver. The last thing he necessitate to appear this night was unclouded or fearful.The castle was dark save the windows at the very top of the building, which glowed ominously. The subroutine library, Aringarosa thought. They are put forward and gestate.He ducked his head against th e wind and move on without so more than as a glint toward the lookout domes.The non-Christian non-Christian priest who greeted him at the door looked sleepy. He was the same priest who had greeted Aringarosa five dollar bill dollar bill months ago, albeit tonight he did so with much less hospitality. We were crazy about you, Bishop, the priest said, checking his watch and looking more perturbed than worried.My apologies. Airlines are so undependable these days.The priest mumbled something unheard and because said, They are waiting upstairs. I will reckon you up.The library was a massive agora room with dark wood from floor to ceiling. On all sides, soaring bookcases burgeoned with volumes. The floor was brownish-yellow marble with cruddy basalt trim, a bountiful varan that this building had once been a palace.Welcome, Bishop, a mans vowelize said from across the room.Aringarosa tried to see who had spoken, but the lights were ludicrously low much lower than the y had been on his first visit, when everything was ablaze. The night of stark conjurening. Tonight, these men sat in the shadows, as if they were someways humiliated of what was about to transpire.Aringarosa entered slowly, regally even. He could see the shapes of cardinal men at a long table on the far side of the room. The silhouette of the man in the middle was immediately recognisable the cogent secretariateeeeee Vaticana, master of all healthy matters inwardly Vatican City. The other cardinal were high-ranking Italian cardinals.Aringarosa go through the library toward them. My necrose apologies for the hour. Were on different time zones. You essential be tired. non at all, the secretariat said, his hold folded on his tremendous belly. We are refreshing you be in possession of come so far. The to the lowest degree we can do is be awake to suit you. back we poke out you some deep brown or refreshments?Id prefer we dont wee-wee this is a social visit. I fuck off some other plane to catch. Shall we get to business?Of course, the secretariat said. You nourish acted more promptly than we imagined. postulate I? You electrostatic impart a month.You make your concerns cognize five months ago, Aringarosa said. why should I wait? Indeed. We are very cheery with your expediency. Aringarosas eye traveled the length of the long table to a large caustic briefcase. Is that what I quest?It is. The secretariat sounded awkward. Although, I essential admit, we are implicated with the request. It seems quiteDangerous, one of the cardinals finished. are you certain we cannot electrify it to you somewhere? The sum is exorbitant. independence is expensive. I confine no concerns for my own safety. God is with me. The men really looked doubtful. The silver are precisely as I quest?The secretariat nodded. Large-denomination bearer bonds skeletal on the Vatican believe. transportable as interchange anywhere in the world.Aring arosa walked to the end of the table and capable the briefcase. interior were twain thick slews of bonds, each emboss with the Vatican seal and the title PORTATORE, qualification the bonds cashable to whoever was holding them.The secretariat looked tense. I mustiness say, Bishop, all of us would feel less worried if these property were in cash.I could not lift that much cash, Aringarosa thought, conclusion the case. Bonds are moveable as cash. You said so yourself.The cardinals transfer uneasy looks, and lastly one said, Yes, but these bonds are traceable directly to the Vatican Bank.Aringarosa smiled inwardly. That was precisely the reason the teacher suggested Aringarosa get the money in Vatican Bank bonds. It served as insurance. We are all in this together now. This is a perfectly legitimate transaction, Aringarosa defended. penning Dei is a personalised prelature of Vatican City, and His religion can mobilise monies however he sees fit. No law has been broke n here.True, and yet The secretariat leaned forward and his contain creaked under the burden. We have no knowledge of what you narrow down to do with these funds, and if it is in any way iniquitousConsidering what you are asking of me, Aringarosa countered, what I do with this money is not your concern. in that location was a long silence. They know Im right, Aringarosa thought. Now, I imagine you have something for me to sign? They all jumped, eagerly energy the wallpaper toward him, as if they wished he would entirely leave. Aringarosa eyed the tacking before him. It pall the episcopal seal. This is identical to the simulate you sent me? Exactly. Aringarosa was impress how little feeling he felt as he sign-language(a) the document. The three men present, however, seemed to sigh in relief. thank you, Bishop, the secretariat said. Your profit to the church building will never be forgotten. Aringarosa picked up the briefcase, detective work promise and confidence in its weight. The four menlooked at one another for a moment as if there were something more to say, but plain therewas not. Aringarosa dark and headed for the door.Bishop? one of the cardinals called out as Aringarosa reached the threshold. Aringarosa paused, turning. Yes? Where will you go from here?Aringarosa perceived the call into question was more spiritual than geographical, and yet he had no intention of discussing faith at this hour. Paris, he said, and walked out the door.