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The camora was lined with cloth of gold, and with it I wore a girdle of St. Francis made of large pearls, with a beautiful clear-cut ruby for clasp. On the other side of the chariot were Madonna Fiordelisa" an illegitimate daughter of Duke Francesco Sforza, who occupied rooms in the Castello, "Madonna Bianca, the wife of Messer Galeazzo; and the wife of Count Francesco Sforza.
But the Queen resolved to hide somewhere a packet of false letters to prove that the Princess had been conspiring with the King's enemies, and she chose the chimney as a good place. Fortunately for Fiordelisa this was exactly where the Blue Bird had perched himself, to keep an eye upon her proceedings, and try to avert danger from his beloved Princess, and now he cried: 'Beware, Fiordelisa!
By degrees they came to talking about other things in which the King took an interest, and in a wonderfully short time the whole kingdom was astonished by the news that the King was married again to the sorrowful lady. Now the King had one daughter, who was just fifteen years old. Her name was Fiordelisa, and she was the prettiest and most charming Princess imaginable, always gay and merry.
'Oh! do whatever you like with me, said the King; 'you may turn me to stone, but I will marry no one but Fiordelisa. And not another word would he say, though the Fairy scolded and threatened, and Turritella wept and raged for twenty days and twenty nights. And then the King cried gaily: 'Pray do whatever you like with me, as long as you deliver me from this ugly scold!
'Ah! Fiordelisa, can you indeed be so lovely and so faithless? he sighed, 'then I may as well die at once! And he turned over on his side and began to die. But it happened that his friend the Enchanter had been very much alarmed at seeing the Frog chariot come back to him without King Charming, and had been round the world eight times seeking him, but without success.
The Prince answered at random, and presently asked if he was not to have the pleasure of seeing the Princess Fiordelisa. 'Sire, answered the Queen haughtily, 'her father has ordered that she shall not leave her own apartments until my daughter is married. 'What can be the reason for keeping that lovely Princess a prisoner? cried the King in great indignation.
Fiordelisa heard him, and answered quickly: 'Find out the little kitchen-maid, and she will explain everything. Then the King in a great hurry sent for his pages and said: 'If you can find the little kitchen-maid, bring her to me at once. 'Nothing could be easier, Sire, they answered, 'for she is in the Chamber of Echoes. The King was very much puzzled when he heard this.
She had laid aside all her ugly disguises and wore a white silken robe, and her golden hair shone in the soft lamp-light. The King was overjoyed at the sight, and rushed to throw himself at her feet, and asked her a thousand questions without giving her time to answer one. Fiordelisa was equally happy to be with him once more, and nothing troubled them but the remembrance of the Fairy Mazilla.
The poet, however, in his most favourite characters, retained and recommended a truer sentiment, as in the instance of the loves of Brandimart and Fiordelisa; and there is a graceful cheerfulness in some of his least sentimental ones, which redeems them from grossness.
The King did not try to find out where the bracelets had come from, not because he did not want to know, but because the only way would have been to ask Turritella, and he disliked her so much that he never spoke to her if he could possibly avoid it. It was he who had told Fiordelisa about the Chamber of Echoes, when he was a Blue Bird.
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