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Sismondi does not notice what is quite one of the main points in the matter, that this troop of horse must have been mainly composed of Count Guido's own retainers, and not of Florentine citizens, who would not have cared to leave their business on such a far-off quest as this help to Orvieto.
Now, I could plainly read amazement and doubt on Messer Guido's face when he heard Dante speak thus strangely, and he caught at his arm and shook it a little gently, as one would do that wishes to wake a sleeping man. "You are dreaming, for sure," he said. But Dante only answered him very quietly, still keeping his rapturous face fixed on the girl as she and her company came nearer.
So did Lamberti, and it flashed upon him that this meeting was the first step in an attempt to marry his friend to Cecilia Palladio. The girl was probably an heiress, and Guido's aunt saw a possibility of recovering through her the money she had lost in speculations.
"I met you, I think," I said, "at the picture gallery at Dulwich, and you were kind enough, and and some persons who were with you, to talk to me about a picture there." "Yes; Guido's St. Sebastian. You seemed fond of reading then. I am glad to see you at college." I explained that I was not at college.
And if the love of Isolde burned thus purely for Guido, the love of Guido burned for Isolde with a flame no less pure. No sooner had love entered Guido's heart than he had determined to do some great feat of emprise or adventure, some high achievement of deringdo which should make him worthy to woo her.
Good-bye!" Lamberti left the room. When Lamberti reached the Palazzo Farnese at eight o'clock he had all Guido's receipts for the Princess's money in his pocket.
But it is my place, as Guido's friend and yours, as the only man alive who is devoted to you both." "I am more grateful than I can tell you. But please let people say what they like of me, and do not take my defence. You, of all the men I know, must not." "Why not I, of all men? I, of all men, will." She was standing with her back to the wall on the landing, and he was facing her now.
Florence is the fairest city in the world. I shall be happy to grow old in Florence, studiously, peacefully, pleasantly, dreaming my dreams." Guido protested against his placidity. "What a slugabed spirit! Rings there no alarum in your blood?" Dante said nothing, but looked at me, and I supported Guido's theme. "There are ladies in Florence as lovely as the city's lilies.
Guido's individual distinction was his refined sense of beauty, but it was over-ruled by 'cold calculation, and developed into a mere abstract conception of 'empty grace' without heart or soul. His finest work is the large painting of 'Phoebus and Aurora' in a pavilion of the Rospigliosi Palace at Rome.
"Let it be distinctly understood that I do not take back my letter at all," she said. "If I consent to what you ask, it is only for Guido's sake, and I will only admit that I may be more sure of myself in a few months than I am now, though I cannot see how that is possible." "It shall be understood most distinctly," Lamberti answered.
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