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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Your Excellency," said the guard once more, in answer to his question, "it is the order of the Bernardini who hath commanded quiet and hath promised, on his life, to restore the Queen to her people."
She laid a detaining hand upon the younger woman's shoulder as she spoke the last words, uncertain whether to confide in her further, and Margherita, having given her assurance, still waited. "For this question of excommunication," the Lady of the Bernardini said at last "lest it should be bruited about by the enemies of the Queen it hath no color of truth.
"Am I a noble of Venice that I should know this mystery which toucheth our realm of Cyprus?" she answered scornfully. "Ask the Bernardini, or the Dama Margherita to whom he confesseth all his soul!" "But Rizzo?" Elois
'The Prisoner in the Castle." The Signor Aluisi Bernardini read the note a second time with frowning brows, for there was more than one prisoner, even of this recent conspiracy, in the castle, and the hand was disguised or unknown to him, and he could but guess at the identity of the sender of this mysterious message, which had been brought him, quite openly, by one of the castle guards.
"Thou art verily more a merchant than I had esteemed thee, Messer Querini, if thou hast no thought in this marriage but for the zecchini as well those of her uncle Andrea for the maid Caterina, as those of the Bernardini." The Signor Querini gave a long, contemptuous sniffle. "May gold buy a man like our young Senator Bernardini!
The man's manner was insistent: he had been shown a jewel of value that should be his if he brought the Bernardini back with him, and such fidelity as might thus be purchased, Dama Ecciva could count upon. "Nay: I follow," the Bernardini answered, waving him on before, "yet not too closely. At the castle wait for me."
"It seemeth not easy to translate his choice. What sayeth the proud Lady of the Bernardini? For it is less honor." "One knoweth not; she being of Casa Cornaro, of the elder branch, and, like her son, of few words and great discretion. But she had lately spoken with me of this embassy to France, wishing that her son might hold it, thinking him well fitted for the place.
No one objected, least of all the husband, who worshiped at the shrine of the blooming Bernardini when she quarreled with Civilla. A lady of fashion has a choice of lovers, as she has a choice of dresses for all emergencies. "But how about these new figures?" asked Orsetti. "Per Bacco hear the music!" cried Malatesta. "What a delicious waltz! I want to dance. Let's settle it at once.
"Might not some other man, less finely tempered, have served in Cyprus?" "Aye if the Bernardini himself were not so finely-tempered! I was in the Senate the day they put the choice before him it was no secret, and it proved the man. To do him honor the Senate gave him choice and the Senate doth more easily command. And this they laid before him.
"We must turn her from this thought," said Dama Margherita earnestly to the Lady of the Bernardini, as she left the Queen's presence, sorrowfully. "She will not speak of the child; she hath wept no tears; and the fever of her grief, locked within herself, will drive her to madness. She hath asked that Father Johannes be sent for, without delay. Doubtless it is for this scheme.
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