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Updated: June 23, 2025
She scanned the eager faces triumphantly, but no one had anything to tell. "For verily the Sister Violante maketh part of this strange mystery," she proceeded after a moment of impressive silence. "She and the great signal fire of which no one knew aught! so innocent were all the gentlemen of the court and the Bernardini most of all!
How may joy immeasurable be told in an instant's space, and one schooled to agony not die from the swift change to such rapture of content! For the Bernardini had answered her: "Safe in the Palazzo Reale: and the people are clamoring for their Queen!"
Johannes the Lesser, this one called himself being truly great and devout of heart, so that his vision was wise and true as that of Hagios Johannes the Greater. A curtain at the further end of the audience-chamber parted to admit a stately figure in mourning-robes, as the Lady Beata of the Bernardini advanced to meet him, bringing the message that the Queen would receive him in an inner cabinet.
But for one so high in authority as the Bernardini there were no restrictions and he soon stood confronting the Dama Ecciva in a small cabinet, which by the Queen's mercy had little the aspect of a prison; for she had thought of the mother, as she gave her orders for the prisoner's comfort, and of the last days that she and her daughter might spend together in their native land, and her tender heart had overflowed to them; there were even flowers from the royal gardens, and the air was fragrant; but in Dama Ecciva's manner there was no softening change.
Great hopes were also entertained by the Admiral Mutio di Costanzo, the Bernardini, Dama Margherita and Madama di Thénouris that the High Court an institution distinctively Cyprian, which had not been held since the death of Janus, but of which a session had now been proclaimed throughout the island would assemble a throng of nobles with their vassals and would prove a strong appeal to their loyalty.
"His Excellency the Admiral is verily the champion of Cyprus," the Bernardini resumed after a little silence; "and methinks he would hold dear the royal order to re-man the galleys which have been disbanded as it is now thought, by advice of the traitor Rizzo, or of some other Councillor in favor of Ferdinand of Naples.
Tell him the Lady Margherita came at risk of life in this disguise to put his true men on the quest. Tell him " She was interrupted by an exclamation. "Margherita! the Lady de Iblin thus!" The Bernardini had just entered the court of the Palace.
The bearing and deference of Bernardini were unimpeachable, but Janus was impatient of his impenetrable reserve. Caterina laid her hand affectionately on her cousin's arm, in response to his question.
Only the Lady of the Bernardini and Margherita de Iblin were with Caterina in the loggia, just without the palace, as Elois
For Mutio di Costanzo also, and for the Bernardini, there had been demonstrations, as Dama Ecciva had foretold: but the Lady Margherita de Iblin had noticed with uneasiness, that whereas it was a time when the people, high and low, should have assembled to testify their loyalty and affection, the crowd was chiefly composed of burghers and peasants from the hamlets in city neighborhoods, and that many of the old Cyprian nobles with their tenantry were conspicuously absent.
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