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He instantly expressed to the Ratisbon gentlemen his desire to try the gagliarde himself to such excellent music, and at a sign from the master of ceremonies the dance stopped. Several members of the Council requested the couples to make way, and Maurice took his partner's hand and led her on the stage. The sudden cessation of the music attracted the Emperor's attention also.
Neither the Ratisbon citizens nor Charles, who had been a good dancer himself, had ever seen the gagliarde danced in this way by either the gentleman or the lady. A better-matched couple could scarcely be imagined than the tall, powerful, chivalrous young prince and the beautiful, superbly formed, golden-haired girl who seemed, as it were, carried away by the music.
"Will not the heretics themselves gradually feel that they are robbing the pasty of faith of its truffles what am I saying? of its salt? May their dry black bread choke them! The only thing that gave the unseasoned meal a certain charm was the capitally performed gagliarde. "Which angered his Majesty more deeply than you imagine," replied Don Luis. "The singer's days are probably numbered.
"Whoever can execute the gagliarde to dance herself into misery," replied Barbara impatiently, "will not find it difficult to take a walk through the rain to save some one else from misfortune. The cloak!" "She will go," sobbed Frau Lerch. "The servants must still obey you. At least order the litter. This crazy night pilgrimage can not remain concealed."
But he had showed his best pupils with how much more freedom the Italians performed the gagliarde, and Barbara had not forgotten the lesson. Duke Maurice moved and guided her with the same unfettered ease that the little maestro had displayed in former days.
Without heeding the many persons who stood around them, she whispered softly to the duke, "It would be a pleasure to keep time to the music of the gagliarde with you, your Highness." An ardent love glance accompanied this invitation, and the bold Saxon duke was a man to avail himself of every advantage.
Without heeding the many persons who stood around them, she whispered softly to the duke, "It would be a pleasure to keep time to the music of the gagliarde with you, your Highness." An ardent love glance accompanied this invitation, and the bold Saxon duke was a man to avail himself of every advantage.
"Will not the heretics themselves gradually feel that they are robbing the pasty of faith of its truffles what am I saying? of its salt? May their dry black bread choke them! The only thing that gave the unseasoned meal a certain charm was the capitally performed gagliarde. "Which angered his Majesty more deeply than you imagine," replied Don Luis. "The singer's days are probably numbered.
Without heeding the many persons who stood around them, she whispered softly to the duke, "It would be a pleasure to keep time to the music of the gagliarde with you, your Highness." An ardent love glance accompanied this invitation, and the bold Saxon duke was a man to avail himself of every advantage.
Duke Maurice had been recognised, and now all who felt entitled to do so approached him, among them her foes, at their head Bernhard Trainer, who were obliged to bend low before him, and therefore before her also. Just then the city pipers struck up a gagliarde, and the music was the air of the dancing-master's song by Baldassaro Donati, which had roused the Emperor's indignation a few days ago.
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