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Amilcare let fall a hearty sigh, and considered Molly with anxiety. He had not dared to say a word to her of what her entertainer was, or what her part should be. Premeditation might throw her out of balance, conscious art might exhibit her a scheming courtesan; just in her artlessness lay all her magic. No, no; he trusted her. She was still adorably English witness her on the ship!
It was true that he wanted but one woman superlatively; but it was eminently Grifone's maxim that, failing that which you need, you should take that which you can get. The last stage in the education of Molly, Amilcare found must positively be left to the Secretary. On the night before Duke Cesare's arrival, when every other preparation had been made, Grifone came into his master's room, late.
"More than you think, or can dream," he answered, and spoke truly; for the girl saw nothing in their late visit but a civility done to a great lord. "If the Duke comes to Nona, Amilcare, I will try to put him at his ease," she said after a little. "Try, try, dear soul; it is all that I wish." "He seemed not so to me when first we went to him, Amilcare." Amilcare shrugged.
He could see how she would do, how the sight would ravish him, lover as he was; for the rest, he must trust to his early calculations. Yes! he was ready to stake everything upon this move. The Borgia would be at her feet: so at his feet also. Oh, wise, wise Amilcare! "His Eminence the Duke will receive your Lordship," said the returning monk, and turned once more to lead the way.
On a vivid morning of early summer, when the lemon-trees in the cortile looked as if they had been cut out of metal, and the planes and very poplars were unwinking in the thick blue air, Amilcare came into his wife's room. She had not expected him; he found her lying dishevelled and unbusked, with all her glossy hair tumbled loose.
He is your lover." "No, no! I have no lover, Amilcare; I have never had a lover." "Liar!" he thundered. "If he had not been your lover you would not have spared his life. There can be no other reason. I am not a fool." To Grifone that was just what he appeared. To her some ray of her own soul's honest logic showed at the last.
To the same Giulio Campo have been disciples not only his two above-named brothers, but also Lattanzio Gambara and others; but most excellent in painting, doing him more honour than any of the rest, has been Sofonisba Anguisciuola of Cremona, with her three sisters, which most gifted maidens are the daughters of Signor Amilcare Anguisciuola and Signora Bianca Punzona, both of whom belong to the most noble families in Cremona.
It seemed that the boy knew Latin at any rate enough to hang a few monks. Hanged the poor devils were, and after that very much was made of Grifone. Amilcare took him through all his campaigns, had him well taught, gave confidence for confidence, and found by the time he was at Nona, making his "Gran Tradimento" of Farnese, that he could not get on without him.
"It was that you will be full of business at Nona, Amilcare. You will have no time to love your poor Molly." The rogue was fishing for protestations, and got them. "Love you!" he cried. "Ah, tell me how long I have to live, and I will tell you the hours of my love, O my soul!" "But you will be abroad, a-horseback, with your captains, in the tents " "Why, yes, that must be so," he owned.
Were ever such cries to great Heaven, such invitations to Olympus, slappings of the forehead, punchings of ribs, in Wapping before? Molly in tears on her mother's breast, Amilcare on his knees, the neighbours at the door: Master Lovel, good man, abominated such scenes. Father Pounce married them at St. Saviour's in Southwark; money abounded, the dowry passed from hand to hand.
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