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The boy welcomed him, especially as Fabri had brought him a present of two iron stirrups from Ulm; and all the way served him most faithfully, picking him figs and grapes from the gardens they passed, sharing water and biscuit, and even giving him a goad for his mount a concession which was not allowed to the ordinary pilgrim.
Blondel objected. He repented the moment he had said it. "By name, no. But he says " "Enough for any one with eyes!" Petitot exclaimed. "He says," Fabri repeated, requesting the other by a gesture to be silent, "that the Grand Duke's emissary is a Paduan expelled from Venice or from Genoa. That is near enough. And I confess, were I in your place, Messer Blondel "
Already in his mind's eye he saw Basterga cast to the lions: and why not? The sooner the better if the remedium were really at the door. "There may be news even now," he said, striving to master his emotion, and to speak with the superiority of a few minutes before. "One moment, by your leave! I will see and let you know if it be so, Messer Fabri." "Do by all means," Fabri answered earnestly.
As, believe me, Messer Petitot would see them were he in your place; as Messer Fabri and Messer Baudichon I warrant it do see them; as pardon me all who rank themselves among the wise and the illuminate, see them.
"To seize him if he be guilty proclaims our knowledge of the plot; it will be laid aside, and another, of which we may not be informed, will be hatched. But let him be watched, and it will be hard if with the knowledge we have we cannot do something more than frustrate his scheme." After an interval of silence, "Well," Fabri said, drawing a deep breath and looking round, "I believe you are right.
You may haply call to remembrance a passage of the Jesuit Honorati Fabri, who speaking of perspectives, observes, that an object looked on through a small hole appears magnified; from whence he suggests, the casting of two plates neatly perforated, and fitted to look through, preferable to glasses, whose refractions injure the sight.
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