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"I arrest you on the order of His Grace, the duke," said Calli, in low tones, speaking French with an Italian accent. "Your authority?" I demanded. "This," he said, offering me the parchment, "and this," touching his sword. I took the parchment but could not read it in the dark. "I'll go to the inn to read your warrant," I said, stooping to take up my doublet.
"There I stood in the middle of the room, laden with all her purchases, and not knowing where I was to put them down. She tumbled them all onto the floor, and threw her arms round my neck, saying: "'I pay my debts, I pay my debts! That's the law of the Cales.* * Calo, feminine calli, plural cales. Literally "black," the name the gipsies apply to themselves in their own language.
She would banter Max and would run imaginary courses with him, taking the part of Calli, and always falling dead at Max's feet; but the moment of relaxation brought a haunting, terrified expression to her eyes. The corners of her sweet mouth would droop, effacing the cluster of dimples that played about her lips, and the fair, childish face, usually so joyful, wore the mask of grief.
Wandering about its wide deserted courts and calli, we feel the spirit of the decadent Venetian nobility. Passages from Goldoni's and Casanova's Memoirs occur to our memory. It seems easy to realise what they wrote about the dishevelled gaiety and lawless license of Chioggia in the days of powder, sword-knot, and soprani.
While we were standing in the false lists, speaking with the duke, an Italian approached Max, bowed low, and said: "The noble Count Calli approaches to thank you for your mercy and to extol your bravery." Max turned his head toward the centre of the course, and saw Calli surrounded by a crowd of jabbering friends who were leading him toward us.
Wandering about its wide deserted courts and calli, we feel the spirit of the decadent Venetian nobility. Passages from Goldoni's and Casanova's Memoirs occur to our memory. It seems easy to realise what they wrote about the dishevelled gaiety and lawless license of Chioggia in the days of powder, sword-knot, and soprani.
They had four signs of years, tochtli, acatl, tecpatl, and calli, rabbit, canes, flint, and house; and against these signs they ranged numbers, from 1 to 13, so that a cycle exactly corresponds to a pack of cards, the four signs being the four suits, thirteen of each.
Max had gone out that evening without arms or armor. He had not even a dagger. When Calli had passed out of sight, Yolanda stooped, picked up his dagger, and offered it to Max, saying: "He will gather his friends at once. Take this dagger and hasten back to the inn, or you will never reach it alive. No, come with me to Uncle Castleman's house. There you may lie concealed."
He should tell the duke who he was, remain in Burgundy to kill this fellow Calli, and to meet such other fortune as the Fates might have in store for him. Hymbercourt and the duke spoke together for the space of five minutes, evidently discussing a parchment that Charles held in his hand.
Now my source was doubled, and I wished for the first time that I might live my life again, to lay it at this girl's feet. But soon it was brought forward in a most unpleasant way. Max and I were in the streets of Peronne one afternoon, and as we approached a group of ragged boys, one of them cried out: "There is the fellow that challenged Count Calli, but won't fight him!"
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