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Updated: May 13, 2025
"For that I came!" cried Dama Margherita, her voice ringing through the hall like a leader's call to arms; "to bring news of her to her own! How should it fare with a Queen made captive in her own stronghold? With a mother whose child hath been stolen from her? With a woman struggling with such anguish?" "The Prince! Our King! Sanctissima Maria! San Marco confound the knaves!"
The ears, which project at right angles, are riveted on; the rest is repoussé in one piece. It is so finely modelled and so accurate in its detail, that it has been recognised as a representation of the Cervus Dama, which was formerly common in South Italy. The interior of the ears and the lip of the cup have been gilt, and in the nostrils is niello.
The mother sprang to her feet, alert on the instant, her strength surging back tumultuously every faculty tense. "The child is safe while your Majesty is careful to fulfil our pleasure." "My Lords," cried Dama Margherita, fearlessly, "the writing on this parchment is not true."
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 is enough of Carlotta," said the Lady of the Bernardini, rising to break up the talk. But she beckoned to Dama Margherita to remain, as the others were leaving the hall, and gave her a charge in a low tone. "See to it that these tales add not to the weariness of our beloved Lady who hath already enough of grief to bear; and the time is full of dangers for her.
"Signore Consiglière !" Dama Margherita exclaimed beseechingly. But if the monks of Santa Soffia had a reason for their conduct, he also had for his, and would not be stayed. "They gave their reason; that the precious gift should not be desecrated to hold relics that were subject to excommunication," he said with painful distinctness, and would not linger for any explanation.
Caterina broke off with a vivid flush and left the sentence unfinished, remembering that there had been a previous Archbishop of Nikosia whose code had not been fashioned by her ideals. Dama Margherita had but just withdrawn when the uproar in the streets began and she rushed back at once to her Lady's side.
She and the Dama Margherita who knoweth more surely to tie one's honest speech than even the great Lady of the Bernardini, are gone to the Sala Regia to represent Her Majesty and receive the splendid gifts which His Excellency the Ambassador hath brought from Alexandria.
But the Queen's guard, in the Queen's palace, can have but one mind to uphold her cause!" There was no other voice in all Cyprus so tender, so compelling, so magnetic, so all-convincing; the voice revealed her. "Dama Margherita de Iblin!" was echoed about the court in surprise. The news spread.
She had put the letter aside, meaning to discuss it with her Chamberlain in the morning; but in the darkness and solitariness of her chamber, it assumed new proportions, and she finally sent to pray the Lady Margherita to come to her, and they sat far into the night Dama Margherita trying in vain to comfort her with her assurance that she did not believe the letter to be genuine.
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