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And, "I cannot believe that it is but two days I have lived in the air, Alessandro. This seems to me the first home I have ever had. Is it because I am Indian, Alessandro, that it gives me such joy?" It was strange how many more words Ramona spoke than Alessandro, yet how full she felt their intercourse to be. His silence was more than silent; it was taciturn. Yet she always felt herself answered.
Even that knowledge could not have made Alessandro sleep more soundly, since the fear of danger to Ortensia could not keep him awake, and he slept as peacefully on the stone pavement of the corridor as ever he did in the most luxurious bed. But his man was awake and was watching for all the four, though he lay quite still, rolled up in his brown cloak.
And indeed, that group, part of the plunder that the people found in Palazzo Riccardi, in the time of Piero de' Medici, who sought to make himself tyrant, once stood beside the great gate of Palazzo Vecchio, whence it was removed at the command of Alessandro, who placed there instead Bandinelli's feeble Hercules and Cacus.
He adopted the politics of the Medicean party, remaining loyal to his aristocratic creed all through the troublous times which followed the French invasion of 1494, the sack of Prato in 1512, the sack of Rome in 1527, and the murder of Duke Alessandro in 1536.
Instantly recovering her self-possession, she readjusted her veil, gave a gentle but graceful inclination of the head toward Alessandro, mounted her mule by the assistance of the slaves, and rode away at a somewhat hasty pace.
Whispering in Jose's ear a few words, he said, "Will you go? I will pay you for the time, all you could earn at the shearing." "I will go," said Jose, elated. "You will see me back tomorrow by sundown." "Not earlier?" asked Alessandro. "I thought by noon." "Well, by noon be it, then," said Jose. "The horse can do it." "Have great care!" said Alessandro.
What remains of Florentine history may be briefly told. Clement, now the undisputed arbiter of power and honour in the city, chose Alessandro de' Medici to be prince. Alessandro was created Duke of Civit
"It was for the purpose of warning you, my son!" mildly responded the pope. "For even the greatest forbearance must at length come to an end; and when I am compelled to forget that you are Alessandro Albani's nephew, I shall then only have to remember that you are the criminal Francesco Albani, whom all the world condemns, and whom I must judge!
"No, I do not," said the Senora; "I do Alessandro full justice. I think very few men would have behaved as well as he has under the same temptation. I do not hold him in the least responsible for all that has happened. It is all Ramona's fault." Felipe's patience gave way.
"There is something caught round his foot, Alessandro," said Ramona. "It keeps moving." Alessandro jumped off his horse, and kneeling down, exclaimed, "It's a stake, and the lariat fastened to it. Holy Virgin! what " The rest of his ejaculation was inaudible. The next Ramona knew, he had run swiftly on, a rod or two.
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