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Updated: May 23, 2025
Her Majesty hath ordered some festive trifle of music, or other entertainment, which our music-maidens, skilled upon the lute, would fain begin." At a signal from the Lady Margherita, they came floating out upon the terrace: but the Cornaro turned frowning from them and signed with his hand that his cousin, the Bernardini, should let him pass.
"Your Excellency shall know if aught be discovered that should be told," Margherita promised. "But the matter is difficult." "As to Her Majesty," the Admiral continued lowering his voice still further, "it hath been found needful to guard her interests, and the Signor Bernardini hath been named to the Council a most excellent gentleman if he were not of Venice.
"And the Lady of the Bernardini to leave her splendid palace! Venice without the Lady of the Bernardini!" "Where hast thou been that thou knowest it not? It is even so!" "Thou dost verily flatter the vanity of a man, Querini, to forget that I am but two days returned with my cargoes from Flanders." "Nay thy pardon, friend.
"If the Lady of the Bernardini were here " "Aye but she is not." Ecciva returned placidly: "The Madonna be praised for a moment's liberty to utter one's thought!
At a glance from the Queen, Bernardini moved courteously aside, but Caterina did not follow: she waited for a moment before she spoke as if to weigh her speech.
Thus Aluisi Bernardini found himself with his mother, close prisoner in the Royal palace, on the night when his Queen most sorely needed the help he would have perilled his life to give.
"Let us talk no more; for thou hast no news of real matter." "Not of the Bernardini, since thou wilt not hear it. But how if I knew of a bride for him?" "I think he would not ask of whom thou speakest!" Elois
I have no other message." The Bernardini pondered a moment. She had meant him to feel that the case was urgent, for no hint of the immediate sailing of the prisoner's galley for Venetian waters had yet reached him, who was usually foremost in any information that touched upon Venetian interests. It might be a ruse, or a mere plausible excuse to her messenger.
But through the desolate night-watches the Lady of the Bernardini in the ante-chamber of the Queen had been agonizing in prayer for her until thought was spent; and now she had moved out upon the loggia and stood there waiting for the dawn that seemed long-deferred, in a half-conscious wonder that there were no sorrows great enough to stay Nature's punctual recurrences that to-day and to-morrow there would still be dawns and sunsets, whatever happened to the souls of men.
I mind it well enough and shall mind it better when thou hast a chance to make us envious of the wares thou wilt unburden from thy cumbrous, carven chests, for there is much talk of their richness. But the ear of Venice is so attuned to these wedding-chimes that it hath no chance to vibrate to another theme until the rejoicings of the morrow be past." "And the great estates of the Bernardini?
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