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Elderly man in red cardinal's robes writing with a quill at an ornate desk, with a gilded clock and roses beside him.

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An elderly man in a red cassock and red skullcap sits at an ornate desk, quill in hand, gazing upward as if composing a letter. A gilded rococo clock, a gilt-framed painting, a vase of pink roses, an inkwell, stacked books and a sealed scroll fill the richly furnished room.

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