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Her dreams now were of the dolce far niente of a tropical climate, a boudoir giving on the Caribbean sea, cigarettes, coffee, nights spent in a foreign opera house, the languid, reposeful existence of a Spanish dama with him, with him. It was for his sake that she had modified all her ideas of life.
Unless thou hast confession of some real import to the State or names that we should know and for the telling much might be forgiven thee I bid thee farewell. Truly it is hard for thee, my poor Dama Ecciva; but in thy heart thou knowest that the penalty could not be less. May thy reason and the years soften it to thee."
When the first days of the shock of the child's death had passed, and the Queen had roused herself to notice those who were anxiously watching her, she asked to be left alone with Dama Margherita: but of the child she would not speak. "Tell me," she said, "of the saintly Margherita of thine house, the Abbess of San Lazzaro; why left she the world?"
The guardian's faith and devotion were sketched in rapid strokes; and when the tiny King had been crowned and his knights and barons of Cyprus and Jerusalem had sworn him fealty, the souls of her listeners swelled indignant within them as Dama Margherita thrilled forth the challenge of the Emperor to the Lord of Iblin to lay down his trust and surrender the child with the customs of Cyprus to him their Suzerain until the boy should be of age.
"Could I risk any hurt to thee, cara Dama Margherita, if duty of plainest speech were not imperative? I trust thee wholly how else could I speak thus with thee? I have never for a moment doubted thee; yet one might doubt one's own loyalty in this court of Cyprus where, it is told me, there is a most subtle intriguer who seeketh to do thee harm."
"A regal mantle of cloth of gold, with its gleam of jewels for her lorn Majesty who will never again wear aught but trappings of woe, if she might have her will it is a waste of treasure!" "For shame, Ecciva!" "Nay; for we are only we not the Dama Margherita; nor the Lady of the Bernardini. Will the mourning bring back the child? One may weep one's life away in vain."
And the Queen God help her! is a charming child." "My Lord!" "A charming child with a heart developed and matured like a saint; but with a mind untrained to intrigue, unsuspicious of jealousies, unconscious of any injustice wrought by her husband, not apt to comprehend, perhaps, any grievance of the nobles " "May we not help her?" Dama Margherita interrupted eagerly.
But she hath set such store upon his coming, and with such gracious scheming for his pleasure, that if he leave her time she may soften any hard intent. San Marco grant that I have misjudged him, for he is of our house." "Thou hast much weight with her," the Dama Margherita answered very low. "Stay near me, that we may guard her."
Grubbs still sat on the floor groaning. "You must eat those words," went on the Vere calmly. "Eat 'em up with sauce for dinner. The 'admired actress well known at the Brilliant, has nothing to do with the Bruce-Errington man, not she! He's a duffer, a regular stiff one no go about him anyhow. And what the deuce do you mean by calling me an offending dama. Keep your oaths to yourself, will you?"
For the matter of this conspiracy had sorely wrought upon him and he might not ignore such a message, though it came from one so unreliable as Dama Ecciva, for she was surely in touch with the disaffected nobles. It might be a new conspiracy yet it was more likely a mere whim, or an attempt to get her sentence remitted poor girl!
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