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There was a chorus of indignant protest: "It could not be, when she so grieveth! They have no hearts those frati of Santa Soffia!" "The Queen will not endure this refusal without reason!" "There was no reason that should be told," their informer whispered low to one of them. "For love of the Queen, hush the topic."
The Consiglière Fabrici went with others to the monks of Santa Soffia, and if he told this matter there, so as he hath whispered it in the court of Cyprus, it may well be that the frati reasoned thus."
After proceeding two days south-west, you arrive at Saffee, or properly Asafee, called by the natives Asfee, and anciently Soffia or Saffia, is a city of great antiquity, belonging to the province of Abda, and was built by the Carthaginians near Cape Pantin. Its site lies between two hills, in a valley which is exposed to frequent inundations.
All speech must be as in her presence." The Councillor, resenting the reproof, gave a slight cold bow, studying her curiously, and pondering whether he dared go further. "The matter is of interest," he pursued, after a moment's pause, "for they gave their reason, these monks of Santa Soffia, and scrupled not being willing to keep their treasure."
It was known that soon after the funeral, the Queen seeking how she might do highest honor in preparing the permanent tomb, had been told of the priceless sarcophagus of oriental jasper the gift in early ages of the Emperor of the East to Santa Soffia in Nikosia, and she had sent an envoy to the brothers of the convent to ask that it be surrendered for the tomb of Janus, their king, promising whatever compensation they should ask.
"Signore Consiglière !" Dama Margherita exclaimed beseechingly. But if the monks of Santa Soffia had a reason for their conduct, he also had for his, and would not be stayed. "They gave their reason; that the precious gift should not be desecrated to hold relics that were subject to excommunication," he said with painful distinctness, and would not linger for any explanation.
Before the portico of the Duomo Santa Soffia the cavalcade came to pause, while Caterina dismounted the people clinging about her to kiss her hand, to prove their loyalty until pale from emotion she left them, and passed with all her noble company under the fretted arches of the vast portal, to offer up her orisons her first act in this city of her adoption, a service of faith and adoration her first resting-place in her new home, the altar of the church which was one in all lands.
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