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But three months having elapsed without my having paid any visit to Lusia, or having answered the letters written to me by the damigella Marchetti, and without sending her the money she claimed of me, she made up her mind to take certain proceedings which might have had serious consequences, although they had none whatever in the end.
In the list which is still preserved are the names of many of her maids of honor; her first lady-in-waiting was Angela Borgia, una damigella elegantisima, as one of the chroniclers of Ferrara describes her, who is said to have been a very beautiful woman, and who was the subject of some verses by the Roman poet Diomede Guidalotto.
With her Mary Shelley gives a few of the long list of names of women who won fame in Italy from their intellect: the beautiful daughter of a professor, who lectured behind a veil in Petrarch's time; the mother of Lorenzo de' Medici, Ippolita Sforza; Alessandra Scala; Isotta of Padua; Bianca d'Este; Damigella Torella; Cassandra Fedele.
"Fra Paolo hath found our offering worthy," he said very gravely; and suddenly remembering that Marina had come for the last time, "Benedetto hath need of me in the outer studio for some measurements," he said to Marcantonio, "but I shall soon return. Do thou, meanwhile, show the damigella thy sketch." She turned inquiringly toward Marcantonio, who placed it silently before her.
He leaped up the stone steps by two at a time, and said hurriedly to Maso, who met him "Where is the damigella?" "In the library; she is quite ready, and Monna Brigida and Messer Bernardo are already there with Ser Braccio, but none of the rest of the company." "Ask her to give me a few minutes alone; I will await her in the salotto."
"And you do not believe me, sir?" "No, they are too beautiful for me to believe them natural." "Oh, dear me! I cannot bear it." "Excuse me, my lovely damigella, I am afraid I have been too sincere." After that quarrel we remained silent. The good curate smiled now and then, but his niece found it very hard to keep down her sorrow.
Why, you go about it as though it were the most innocent thing in the world to disguise yourself, and present yourself as a professor in a nobleman's house, in order to make love to his daughter! You, to make love to a noble damigella, a young countess, with a fortune! Go back to Serveti, and marry the first contadina girl you meet, it is much more fitting, if you must needs marry at all.
But three months having elapsed without my having paid any visit to Lusia, or having answered the letters written to me by the damigella Marchetti, and without sending her the money she claimed of me, she made up her mind to take certain proceedings which might have had serious consequences, although they had none whatever in the end.
"La damigella a la," said he. For all that Marius had no Italian he understood the drift of the words, assisted as they were by the man's expressive gesture. He sneered cruelly. "It would be an ugly thing for you, my ugly friend, if she were not," he answered. "Away with you. I shall call you when I need you." And he pointed to the door. Garnache experienced some dismay, some fear even.
"And you do not believe me, sir?" "No, they are too beautiful for me to believe them natural." "Oh, dear me! I cannot bear it." "Excuse me, my lovely damigella, I am afraid I have been too sincere." After that quarrel we remained silent. The good curate smiled now and then, but his niece found it very hard to keep down her sorrow.
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