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Carlo stopped, looked down, and then added, as he advanced to the breakfast-table, and took up the basket of fruit, 'I made bold, your excellenza, to bring some cherries, here, for my honoured lady and my young mistress.
Wilhelm shook his head, and the Italian continued, "There are other doctors in Leyden, but Father Damianus says de Bont or Bontius, as they call him, is the most skilful and learned of them all, and as the old excellenza herself had an attack of illness about noon, and certainly won't leave her bed very speedily, the way is open, and Father Damianus says he'll go to Doctor Bontius himself if necessary.
"It shall be proved to thy satisfaction, excellenza." Carlton thanked in his heart the long auburn hair that covered in part his burning cheeks, while he thus stood before that gallant assembly of the elite of the court of Florence. "What proof, sir artist," said the duke, "shall we have of the genuineness of this production?"
"Excellenza," said the cook, while Andrea was making ready, "you treated us splendidly last evening. But apart from the wine, which was excellent, your steward did not put anything on the table that was worthy to set before a true epicure.
Conrad opened the door and signed to some one without, when the commissionnaire advanced and bowed. "Why are you masked?" asked the prince, who remembered the warning which Laura had sent him the day previous. "Excellenza, every Venetian of good character has a right to wear a mask during the carnival." "And every criminal can take advantage of the right," replied Eugene.
Ugo has taken a larger share of that than of fighting, I'll be sworn. Who is carousing at this late hour? 'His excellenza and the Signors, replied the soldier: 'it is a sign you are a stranger at the castle, or you would not need to ask the question. They are brave spirits, that do without sleep they generally pass the night in good cheer; would that we, who keep the watch, had a little of it!
Next came along the jabbering landlady: "I don't like his looks. It was just so the last time. Come, Excellenza, you can see him from the back terrace." The sun was not yet risen, but the east was bright with his coming, and there was not a cloud in the sky. All the features of Etna were sharply sculptured in the clear air.
Hark!" hearing a sound, "was that the wind?" "The wind, Excellenza," was the light response. "But the figures, they are not yet without their faults. They need some touches yet.
Now, Excellenza, transmute that general gravity into joyousness, and subject it to twelve of those variations I have described, and tell me, will you not have my hours here, and Una one of them? But I like ." Hark! is that a footfall above? "Mortar, Excellenza; sometimes it drops to the belfry-floor from the arch where the stonework was left undressed. I must have it seen to.
None save the author, who had purposely left that flaw, could so have remedied it. It was done almost instantly, yet with precision and accuracy. The duke gazed upon the canvass for a moment, and then exclaimed with admiration: "The Grand Chamberlain!-by our lady, what a likeness! Sir artist, thou hast the pencil of a Raphael!" "Is your excellenza satisfied?"
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