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Well, my Baldo, before they make an end of us shall we show them some little tricks?" "You have said it, Cercamorte. One more good scuffle, with a parade of all our talent." The assailants tried beams against the keep gate; the defenders shot them down or hurled rocks upon their heads. But on the wall of the keep Cercamorte's half-clad men fell sprawling, abristle with feathered shafts.
He was interrupted in a short time by the appearance of one of his followers, who had come up the ravine from the bay below. "Pardon, chief, for my thus coming on you without warning; but I have tidings of importance to communicate," said the man, making a reverential obeisance. "What is it, Baldo?" asked Zappa. "Haste, I am always impatient of news." "It is this, chief.
Without taking her eyes from him, Madonna Gemma crossed herself. Baldo came to the gate. The ghostly Arabian uttered: "Peace be with you. I have here, under my robe, a packet for your master." "Good! Pass it over to me, unless it will turn my nose into a carrot, or add a tail to my spine." The foreigner, shaking his skull-like head, responded: "I must give this packet into no hands but his."
Over this plateau towers on the north Monte Baldo, which, near the river gorge, sends out southward a sloping ridge, known as San Marco, connecting it with the plateau.
Seven tiny sailing-boats, monotypes, the entire fleet, indeed, of the Reale Yacht Club d'Ilaria had described a triangle in the bay, with Vallanza, Presa, and Veno as its points; and I need n't tell anyone who knows the island of Sampaolo that the Marchese Baldo del Ponte's Mermaid, English name and all, had come home easily the first.
In winter they go to Rome, or to Nice, or to England for the hunting; but in summer they pervade Sampaolo, where they have a villa just outside Vallanza, as well as the dark old palace of their family in the town. The twin brothers, Franco and Baldo del Ponte who that has once met them can ever forget them? To begin with, they are giants six-feet-four, and stalwart in proportion.
"I 've just got a new boat out from England, schooner-rigged, the Spindrift. I 've not yet really had a fair chance to try her." "Do you go in for tennis?" asked Franco. "We 've got a court at the villa." "I don't know whether you care for swimming," said Baldo. "You get a fairly decent dive-off from the landing-stage at the end of our garden. The water here is pooty good.
Late at night on January 13th he knew that Provera's advance was little more than a demonstration, and that the real blow would fall on the 10,000 men marshalled by Joubert at Monte Baldo and Rivoli. Forthwith he rode to the latter place, and changed retreat and discouragement into a vigorous offensive by the news that 13,000 more men were on the march to defend the strong position of Rivoli.
It is only your family calling with some of their friends. I entered Grangioia Castle abruptly; now it is tit for tat." The crone brought two helmets, which Lapo and Baldo put on. Then, drawing their long swords, they awaited the onset. The keep gate yielded, and into the hall came rushing a wave of peaked and painted shields.
Niccolò made in the picture a portrait from life of M. Baldo, kneeling at the feet of S. Ubaldo the Bishop, and on the other side he painted S. Joseph; and those two figures are one on either side of the image of the Madonna, which worked miracles in that place. This portrait was one of the best works that Niccolò ever executed in painting.
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