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Updated: May 11, 2025
There is one truthful, gentle and loving spirit that will sympathize with me. I know and feel that; Ruez, my boy, may Heaven bless thee!" "Count Basterio, what sort of a person is this Colonel Bezan, whose sword has been invincible among the rebels, and who has sent us two stand of colors, taken by himself?" asked the queen, of one of her principal courtiers, one day.
Untaught in court etiquette, yet it came perfectly natural for Lorenzo Bezan to kneel before her majesty, which he did immediately, and was graciously bidden to rise. "Count Basterio," said the queen, "where is this Colonel Bezan, whom you were to bring to us to-day? have you forgotten your commission, sir?" "Your majesty, he stands before you," replied the complaisant courtier. "Where, count?"
"Your majesty, I have, never seen him," answered the count, "but I'm told he's a grim old war-horse, covered with scars gained in your majesty's service." "Just as I had thought he must be," continued the queen, "but some one intimated to us yesterday that he was young, quite young, and of noble family, Count Basterio."
But such persons knew nothing to warrant these surmises; they arose from the court gossip, day by day, and only gained importance from being often repeated. "She delights to honor him," said one lady to another, in the queen's ante-chamber. "Count Basterio says that he will be made prime minister within a twelvemonth."
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