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"You to be like any one of us breeched, clouted, swathed and a lovely lass within your shirt Madonna!" "Do you think me lovely?" asked Ippolita devoutly. "I have heard that till I have been sick to death of it; but from you I shall never be tired of knowing it." "Blessed Angel!" "Oh, Pilade, my love!" They loitered on. "You see that I am not what you thought me," said Ippolita, with an arch look.
That winter she gave birth to a second daughter, who was named Ippolita after her grandmother, but died at the age of seven. And now, as if to increase the sadness of her forlorn condition, came the prospect of war with Naples, and the invasion of her father's dominions by a foreign monarch, who entered Italy as the ally of Lodovico, the usurper of her husband's throne.
Ippolita tossed her high head. "Eh!" she snapped. "They may fill the house with crockery at that rate. I'm not rubbish!"
Then you shall veil and come into the garden with me; but whereas you shall come in as the Madonna of these heathens, you shall leave, per Dio, as Silvestro, who murdered the Jew in the Via della Gatta and has to hide in the hills. Do you remember him, Ippolita?" "Of course I do," said Ippolita. "Have I killed that Jew, Annina?" "It is to be understood, my dear.
Why, it's 'My honest friend' that he hails me already! That is what a man may call climbing up, I hope, when a poetical roaring blade cuts out your 'servo suo' in that fashion. And he's Sotto-Prefetto, remember. That means all Padua yours for the asking. Sleep sound, my pretty bird, Ippolita bella! After this night you shall sleep by day."
Luckily, their allusiveness escaped her; she knew nothing of the diversions of the ancient gods. But of all the vantage she gave them, none equalled that for which her gossips should have answered, her most commendable name of Ippolita.
"Ma! Impossibile! And they have never ?" "Never so much as a finger." "But what? Are they ? Don't they ?" Ippolita shrugged, pouting. "Chi lo sa? I tell you, Nannina, I shall go mad in this place." "And why not?" cried the other, with a snort. "You have examples enough about you, my conscience! What is all their singing and stuff about?" "I think it is about me, Nannina." "And their disputing?"
He was at table with his mistress, whom I should not have recognized if she had not pronounced my name directly she saw me. As she had addressed me as Don Giacomo, I called her Donna Ippolita, but in a voice which indicated that I was not certain of her identity. She told me I was quite right. I had supped with her at Naples in company with Lord Baltimore, and she was very pretty then.
Messer Alessandro dropped his tools with a clatter, wiped his mouth, beat his breast, and began to walk up and down the cell. "Send him in, hermit, send him in! Forty ducats if he has any news, ten ducats in any case for bringing my thoughts from Jews on earth to Ippolita in Paradise. Despatch, despatch, send me the goatherd."
By some such aids as these she preserved entire her head, her heart, all her precious store, so that no flattery ever tarnished the clear glass of her mind, no assaults, however fierce, could bruise the root of modesty within her. Ippolita, who began her day's processioning with music and flowers, ended it mostly in tears and stripes. There seemed no escape.
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