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The Admiral gave the password which Bernardini had sent in that hasty note, and listened, trembling as a brave man may with impatience to be within and at his post of duty, while one by one the bolts were withdrawn, the portcullises were raised, and the signal to advance was given quite silently: the finger of the guard who had been detailed to accompany them, was upon his lips.

Memories of the state his Mother had held here rose to meet him memories of his Father, who had been a power in Venice. How could he ask the Lady of the Bernardini, with her whitening hair, to leave it all for Cyprus? Yet that was in his thought. He could not frame the words; it was too much to ask he must leave it to come from her. "Is thy fear not to be spoken?" she asked at last.

And then in unison swift, sure, triumphant the words vibrated on the air: "We have sworn fealty to the Emperor we are true men be others untrue." The voices in the garden had long since ceased, and one by one the wanderers had gathered on the terrace, waiting in responsive silence the conclusion of the tale they loved. Among them the Bernardini stood entranced.

He passed with a friendly nod and some jesting word, which the Bernardini returned more gravely: "Thou dost verily surround thyself with state, Caterina!" her brother exclaimed in a tone of stern displeasure, when she had indicated a chamber where they might be alone, and he had carefully assured himself that the quaint Eastern draperies concealed no guards the while she watched him in amazement.

She had suddenly flushed and grown pale again. Then a new thought came to her. "But she also is a Dama di Maridaggio she also. Thou mightest tell that for a bit of gossip to the Queen, who, perchance, hath influence with the Signor Bernardini." She had laid her hand again on Elois

"That was our dear Lady of the Bernardini; lest the Prince should be strange without some loving face about him, and none can smile him into quiet, as she with her gracious ways; and they feared a sound, for the galley lay close under the fortress.

I have spoken with Madama di Thénouris and the Lady of the Bernardini; but Madama di Thénouris hath better understanding of the Cyprian temper, its need of excitement half barbaric its impatience with a tone of gloom; the tourneys, the tennis, the hunt, all that bringeth life let the court be charming again with jewels and color. Too great gravity is not wise."

He knew that the old Cyprian proverb, "Such another as Iblin is, may not be found," was the pride of her house, and would reach the tenderest spot in her loyal heart. She turned to him gravely: "Dear Signor Bernardini, let it not be spoken between us," she said. "For the Queen hath sore need of us of our every thought and care." "Might we not serve her better so?" he pleaded.

"A regal mantle of cloth of gold, with its gleam of jewels for her lorn Majesty who will never again wear aught but trappings of woe, if she might have her will it is a waste of treasure!" "For shame, Ecciva!" "Nay; for we are only we not the Dama Margherita; nor the Lady of the Bernardini. Will the mourning bring back the child? One may weep one's life away in vain."

"I was to remind your Excellency that the galley will sail to-morrow for Venice if your Excellency should have despatches the Dama de Montferrat feared that it might not be known beyond the castle." "Is this known within the castle and by order of the Castellan?" Bernardini asked quickly, in surprise. "Eccellentissimo, the word came to me by the Dama de Montferrat, in confidence.

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