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That morning the house of a Roman jeweller had been forcibly entered and pillaged by the soldiers of Martino di Porto, with a daring effrontery which surpassed even the ordinary licence of the barons. The sympathy and sensation throughout the city were deep and ominous. "Never will I submit to this tyranny!" "Nor I!" "Nor I!" "Nor by the bones of St. Peter, will I!"
The San Martino young ladies and the Countess Brenda's daughter kept trying to find a way to steal Carminatti for their group; but he always went back to the Maltese, doubtless because her conversation was more diverting and spicy.
I would hang Belvedere and make you captain in his room he wearies me, and would kill me were he man enough ah, Mother of Heaven, what a sea!" she cried, clinging to me as a great wave broke forward, filling the air with hissing spray. "Aid me aft, Martino!" And now she would have me bide and talk with her awhile, but this I would by no means do.
The design becoming known to his adversaries, Ser Martino was retained and Ser Pagolo discharged, to the great injury and displeasure of Rinaldo and his party.
By my will ye are alive; when I will you must surely die. Your wants, your every need must you look to me for so am I your goddess and ruler of your destiny, yes! Ah, had you been more of man and less of fish, I had made you captain of this ship, and loved you, Martino, loved you !"
They ought to extend their strolls; they ought to visit the beautiful outskirts of Naples, lunching in their gay little trattorias or eating-houses. They ascended together the funicular road of Monte Vomero to the heights crowned by the castle of S. Elmo and the monastery of S. Martino.
Caesar read the book, learned the intricacies of the game, and the next few evenings he acquitted himself so well that the Countess of San Martino marched off to her room with burning cheeks and almost in tears. "What a cad you are!" Laura said to him at lunch some days later, laughing. "You are fleecing those women." "It's their own fault. Why did they take advantage of my innocence?"
He endeavored to excite Cosmo, his son, with similar discourses; but Giovanni, for all that was either disclosed or foretold him, remained unmoved, although parties were now declared, and the city in manifest disunion. There were at the palace, in the service of the Signory, two chancellors, Ser Martino and Ser Pagolo.
The finest of these is the Salutation, dated 1503 ordered for the Church of S. Martino, and now the gem of the hall of the Old Masters in the Uffizi Gallery a work which alone has been able to mark him for all time as a great master. So simple is the subject, and yet so grand the proportions, and in the figures there is such majesty of maternity and dignity of womanhood!
After awhile, recovering himself somewhat, Don Federigo must needs strive to speak me his gratitude, but I cut him short to tell of the ship I had seen. "I pray what manner of ship?" "Nay, she is yet too far to determine," said I, glancing eagerly seawards. "But since ship she is, what matter for aught beside?" "True, Senor Martino! I am selfish." "How so?"
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