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Poor Castello's head will keep the nearest sentinel as far off as is consistent with his duty.
Yet, methinks, she might outshine all the faces of Italy, thy mistress, Lord Adrian, of course, excepted." "It is an exception which only a lover, and that too a betrothed lover, would dare to make," replied Adrian, gallantly. "Nay," said Adeline, in a voice singularly sweet and clear, "nay, I know well at what price to value my lord's flattery, and Signor di Castello's courtesy.
"I hope thou art sure of the road, Mariano?" said Francisco anxiously. "Trust me, father; I know it well. Only have a care that you tread lightly and make no noise. Come." Leading them to the point on the ramparts where poor Castello's head still stood withering in the night-wind, Mariano bade them remain in shadow while he attached the rope to the spike.
"Had I not," he told himself, "had I not bowed to Del Castello's question of 'are you anything to her? he would have been here to do his wooing; we, at an hotel, and yet, it was only human, but, bah! how mean; but was I to give up any place I may have in her heart, and yield her to the influence of his southern tongue, merely because I am held in honour not to speak, and am just now a foot-ball for Dame Rumour.
I rather fancy that the Frari's had something to say, and S. Pietro in Castello's also, on account of his age and his early importance; but who could pay any serious attention at that time to a tower so pathetically out of the perpendicular as he now is? The new campanile endeavours to reproduce the old faithfully, and it was found possible to utilize a little of the old material.
And so Lionel thought now as he bowed to Del Castello's question of "are you anything to her?" and thought while doing what hurt his conscience "I shall tell her after." "Then my worst fears are realized," said Del Castello to Lionel's bow. "But, Monsieur, you cannot expect me with my heart's great loneliness fresh upon me to congratulate you on being before me in your wooing.
And she smiled, for she knew before long she would be held to his heart. She thought it best to tell her companions at once, in part, the drift of Del Castello's words; so saying, "Neither of you can guess whom the written words I have just perused are from, so I shall tell you. They come from the Marquis Del Castello."
He proceeded therefore with great caution; keeping close to the walls in the darkest places, and gliding into doorways to hide when any one approached. Thus he succeeded escaping observation, and had almost reached the city wall, not far from the spot where it was garnished by poor Castello's head, when he heard the tramp of soldiers.
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