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The punishment for Cibo's crime was long ago fixed by our laws. Cibo plotted to kill the Duke. Cibo confessed as much." But the girl waved this aside. "And then you plan this masquerade. You plan to make me care for you so greatly that even when I know you to be Count Eglamore I must still care for you.
In such a posture he died very slowly while the wheel turned very slowly there in the sunlit market-place, and flies buzzed greedily about him, and the shopkeepers took holiday in order to watch Tebaldeo die the same Tebaldeo who once fetched me a wren's nest from yonder maple." Eglamore spoke now. "I gave orders for the Marquis of Cibo's execution. I did not devise the manner of his death.
"With whom?" asked the wounded man. "Alone, that time," replied Cibo, with an eagerness in which Boleslas distinguished an intention to deceive him. "And Madame Maitland?" "She was there, too, with her husband," said Pietrapertosa, heedless of Cibo's warning glances, "and all Rome besides," adding: "Do you know the engagement of Ardea and little Hafner is public?
"With whom?" asked the wounded man. "Alone, that time," replied Cibo, with an eagerness in which Boleslas distinguished an intention to deceive him. "And Madame Maitland?" "She was there, too, with her husband," said Pietrapertosa, heedless of Cibo's warning glances, "and all Rome besides," adding: "Do you know the engagement of Ardea and little Hafner is public?
"With whom?" asked the wounded man. "Alone, that time," replied Cibo, with an eagerness in which Boleslas distinguished an intention to deceive him. "And Madame Maitland?" "She was there, too, with her husband," said Pietrapertosa, heedless of Cibo's warning glances, "and all Rome besides," adding: "Do you know the engagement of Ardea and little Hafner is public?
But even so, the past was a cemetery he did not care to have revivified. "And it was you who detected the Marquis of Cibo's conspiracy. Tebaldeo was my cousin, Count Eglamore, and I loved him. We were reared together. We used to play here in these woods, and I remember how Tebaldeo once fetched me a wren's nest from that maple yonder. I stood just here.
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