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It lasted all one summer, but she was turned of sixteen by then, and her father, the marchese, wished her to marry. Naturally I forbade that." "You!" I cried, and again Virginia nodded and said, "Gia!" "You may say so," said Ercole. "What else could I do? And naturally also she preferred the convent. I bade her farewell in the garden. She allowed me then to touch her hand.
But Ercole understood his glance, with the quickness of a man whose trade forced him to read countenances. 'The Eccellenza is looking for the pearls of Ribaumont? The lady made no offer of them to me. 'Do you believe that she has them still? 'I am certain of it, sir. I know that she has jewels though she said not what they were which she preserved at the expense of her hair. It was thus.
Afterwards he said he thought he had seen a woman too, and that it must have been an affair of jealousy." Ercole and Padre Francesco looked at each other in silence for a moment. "Did you hear of no murder at that time?" asked the sailor, taking up the earthen jar full of water. "We heard nothing," said Ercole promptly. "Nothing," echoed Padre Francesco. "The captain was dreaming.
Unfortunately, his youthful daughter had already been sought in marriage by Federico, Marquis of Mantua, on behalf of his elder son, Giovanni Francesco; and Ercole, unwilling to offend so near a neighbour, and yet reluctant to lose the chance of a second desirable alliance, offered Lodovico Sforza the hand of his younger daughter, Beatrice.
His condottieri, Paolo Orsini, Giuliano Orsini, Vitellozzo Vitelli, and Ercole Bentivoglio were with him during these autumn days. His father had equipped seven hundred heavy men at arms for him, and, August 18th, the Venetian ambassador reported to the signory that he had been requested by the Pope to ask the Doge to withdraw their protection from Rimini and Faenza.
In this charming retreat, where Borso and Ercole alike loved to escape from the cares of state, we may still see the remnants of these splendid decorations which once adorned these halls: the painted arabesques and stucco frieze of children playing musical instruments, the barrel-vaulted ceilings, and marble doorways with their rows of cherub heads and dolphins.
'It was on one of the days of the week of Pentecost, said Ercole. 'It is at that time I frequent fairs in those parts, to gather my little harvest on the maidens' heads. 'Parbleu! class not my niece with those sordid beings, man, said the Chevalier, angrily.
At their head were Cardinal Ippolito and five other members of the ducal house; his brothers, Don Ferrante and Don Sigismondo; also Niccolò Maria d'Este, Bishop of Adria; Meliaduse d'Este, Bishop of Comacchio; and Don Ercole, a nephew of the duke.
"How know you it proceeded from Urbino?" quoth the captain earnestly. "Because at its head I recognised the roaring warrior Ercole Fortemani, in the middle rode Romeo Gonzaga, in the rear came Fra Domenico, Madonna's confessor men of Urbino all." The officer's face grew purple at the news. "Were there any women in the party?" he cried.
But to return to Francesco Monsignori: he painted a life-size portrait, which I forgot to mention above, of Count Ercole Giusti of Verona, in a robe of cloth of gold, such as he was wont to wear; and this is a very beautiful likeness, as may be seen in the house of his son, Count Giusto.
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