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Updated: June 23, 2025
The chances of travel had often brought the Signor Bernardini and Dama Margherita together, and there had been much friendly talk between them of things which both held dear and in which their hopes for the quieting of the kingdom had a large share.
He gave them the little bag of ducats and took leave of them by the monument of Pietro Bernardini, almost on the spot where Ortensia and Pina had put on their brown cloaks three or four days earlier.
"That traitor Tripoli is in the train of the scoundrel Rizzo, both faring forth for other treacheries, thinking us safe enough to leave, with those spies of Naples on guard." His sputtering curses choked further speech. "It shall be now," said Mutio di Costanzo: "conduct us to the Signor Bernardini" yet wondering at the silence of the streets as he passed.
And then there was naught left to do but to hide me, somewhat weak of heart, in the tapestry of the ante-chamber; for the door was wide into the Queen's salon, and there was His Excellency the Bernardini, flashing scorn in his speech, so that one thought the air would break into flames he, the while, standing still enough for an image of a wrathful Kinyras; the Queen's guard was around him, all in full armor a doughty corps of men to meet those three!
Nay: but it is the fuss and manner of this marriage that turneth me somewhat against it: and because the father of the Bernardini was in truth my friend. But Caterina was still a child when a king appeared as suitor, and the question of the Bernardini was never made; and Marco Cornaro Marco is a delighted magnifico.
For days after the visit of Hagios Johannes, Caterina scarcely spoke, or noticed what was passing around her; and the Lady of the Bernardini and Dama Margherita, with hearts aching from the burden of their pity, were helpless before such desolation.
"That is for thy puzzle to amuse thee, carinissima; for verily thy brain is dull. It is no wonder with the gravity of this court! But happily to-morrow thou shalt see to-morrow how the people shout to him, for Cyprus doth owe him honor and Her Majesty more than life. It is the Bernardini who hath done it all more than the Soranzo, or the Mocenigo more even than our great Admiral of Cyprus.
The old Cyprian gentlewoman, Madama di Thénouris, under advice of the Admiral and the Council, had held long frank talks with the Lady of the Bernardini. "We love our gentle Queen," she said with feeling; "and we do our possible to uphold her. But she also she must show herself among the nobles she must claim their loyalty. Hath she the strength to rise above her grief and try to rule?
It was therefore arranged that Ortensia and Pina should go to the church at that hour on pretence of confession. At the monument of Pietro Bernardini, near the main entrance, Stradella's hunchback servant would be waiting for them with two brown cloaks and hoods, which they were to put on immediately.
But I heard His Excellency's speech as he stood bowing in the doorway when the guards led Tristan forth a model of courtesy one would have said for I could see him through a parting in the arras though I risked my life in standing there 'Her Majesty' said the Bernardini very fair of speech 'doth surely owe such escort to the Illustrissimo, the Seigneur de Giblet, for the attention he would fain have offered in his own person to King Janus, in his Episcopal Palace before he wore the crown of the realm. And the Seigneur de Giblet, not to be outdone being Cyprian answers him very proud and cold 'Is your Excellency ever so faithful to reward a service contemplated, but not achieved? For he had meant to smother the King in his sleep that night, if Janus had not escaped to Egypt."
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