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Updated: June 23, 2025
She caught her companion's hand as Ecciva made a feint of turning away. "So ; now there is something found that doth not tax thy fickle patience, since we speak of the splendid Bernardini! Thou hast ever thine adoration ready for a Venetian."
And this am I sent to tell you, by the Lady of the Bernardini who is a gracious tyrant and would save a bit of pleasure for our childish souls out of the dulness of the days. And when we hear the champing of horses in the great court of the palace but there is already a tumult below fly then!"
The Commander of Famagosta hath men and arms behind those impregnable walls, and all the wicked strength of his cunning Council to direct them, Rizzo and Fabrici masters in intrigue and the men of the galleys of Naples at the tower in the port, commanding land and sea. Without more force it is impossible!" "Dear Lady, the Bernardini lacketh no courage, and he commandeth.
But at last the Admiral and the Bernardini led Caterina forth into the piazza, pale and calm the glory of a great gladness in her eyes the suffering which had left deep traces in her face disguised by the exaltation of the moment so that she scarcely seemed less radiant than when she had last stood there on the day of the coronation fête with her child in her arms as any woman of the people might have done, the tender, baby-cheek pressed close to hers.
"Or if there be some message of farewell for Her Majesty?" Again she shook her head, in emphatic denial; but she was conscious that the Bernardini still lingered, although he had taken a few steps away from her: and looking up she saw that he was watching her in keen disappointment.
Early in these days of quiet Caterina had turned once more to her cousin the Bernardini, bidding him ask some favor at her hand "For verily I owe thee more than I may repay."
Aluisi Bernardini breathed a sigh of content as he moved quickly away with a sense of his responsibility being shared; for it was only now that he felt that he knew Margherita, and she would be ever near the Queen, a Cypriote of the Cypriotes, but loyal to her heart's core.
An Embassy from Venice was expected upon important affairs of State, and there was an unusual radiance in the face of the Queen, for it had been announced that the Illustrissimo, the Signor Zorzi Cornaro, brother to Caterina, was chief of the Commission, and it was long since one of her very own had been with her. "Zia mia," she said eagerly to the elder Lady of the Bernardini.
But retribution must be near; for he knew that Bernardini had sent warning followed by immediate details of the revolt, by secret messengers, concealed in trading-ships to the Venetian fleet off the African coast, and strong help must be at hand. To risk failure by a premature attack, for want of patience to endure a temporary disgrace, would be unmanly weakness.
"And now what wilt thou do?" the Lady of the Bernardini asked at length, turning towards her son, failing to see what course of action might be wisest. "May we not go to her to-night?" "It is too late: the gates are closed; it could do but harm to rouse them for us to pass, with no cause but our anxieties to offer. But to-morrow, we will compass it.
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