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But being himself saddle-worn at the time, he had been unable to proceed farther than this, and here Galeotto in his fierce impatience had left him, pursuing his way alone. Here, then, we found the equerry again, consumed by anxiety.
He leapt forward to greet me, addressing me by the old title of Madonnino which I loved to hear from him, however much that title might otherwise arouse harsh and gloomy memories. Here at Bologna Galeotto announced that he would be forced to rest, and we slept for three hours until night had closed in.
"I cannot," he faltered, "I cannot even now, after all these years, bear to think upon those horrors perpetrated by that monster." I was strangely moved at the sight of emotion in one who seemed emotionless as iron. "I left the hermitage," said I, "in the hope that I might the better be able to serve God in the world. I think you are showing me the way, Ser Galeotto."
This is Agostino d'Anguissola, of Mondolfo and Carmina." Surprise overspread Gonzaga's face. He seemed about to speak, and checked, and his eyes were very searchingly bent upon Galeotto's face, which remained inscrutable as stone. Then the Governor looked at me, and from me back again at Galeotto. At last he smiled, whilst I bowed before him, but very vaguely conscious of what might impend.
And now from below there rose such a din of steel on steel, of shouts and screams and curses, that it behoved us to make haste. Bidding us follow him, Galeotto flung open the door. At table sat Farnese with two of his gentlemen, one of whom was the Marquis Sforza-Fogliani, the other a doctor of canon law named Copallati. Alarm was already written on their faces. At sight of Galeotto "Ah!
At last, having gained some measure of self-control, Galeotto begged to know what had happened, and Cavalcanti related the event. "What could I do? What could I do?" he cried when he had finished. "You let them take him?" said Galeotto, like a man who repeats the thing he has been told, because he cannot credit it. "You let them take him?"
"That and his wrongs shall be used, depend upon it, my lord the wrongs which are his by inheritance." I said no word. A certain resentment filled me to hear myself so disposed of without being consulted; and yet it was tempered by a certain trust in Galeotto, a faith that he would lead me into nothing unworthy. Gonzaga conducted us to the door of the closet.
The Governor conned it; then passed it to Galeotto. "It seems in order," he said. Nevertheless, Galeotto studied it awhile; and then, still holding it, he looked at Cosimo, and the scarred face that hitherto had been so sombre now wore a smile. "It is as irregular as the other," he said. "It is entirely worthless." "Worthless?" quoth Cosimo, in an amazement that was almost scornful.
With that he pushed on, the mob streaming along with us, intent upon going there and then to do the thing that Galeotto advised. And by now they had discovered Galeotto's name, and they were shouting it in acclamation of him, and at the sound he smiled, though his eyes seemed very wistful. He leaned over to me, and gripped my hand where it lay on the saddle-bow clutching the reins.
Here Foscari, who was already in attendance on the emperor, came to meet them, and they rode into Vigevano, where they were received by the Count of Caiazzo and Galeotto della Mirandola, and listened in torrents of rain to a Latin oration that was delivered in Maximilian's name.
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