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Pope Urban, a bacon-picker. Melusina was a kitchen drudge-wench. Matabrune, a laundress. Cleopatra, a crier of onions. Helen, a broker for chambermaids. Semiramis, the beggars' lice-killer. Dido did sell mushrooms. Penthesilea sold cresses. Lucretia was an alehouse-keeper. Hortensia, a spinstress. Livia, a grater of verdigris.
Lady Mary, leaving the countess to Sir Harry Stapleton, Caryll and the others, moved to Hortensia's side for a moment she was at loss what to say, and took refuge in a commonplace. "I have long desired the pleasure of your acquaintance," said she. "I am honored, madam," replied Hortensia, with downcast eyes. Then lifting them with almost disconcerting suddenness.
In such deep thoughts, and in the strong excitement of such expectation, Hortensia and her daughter had passed that awful night; not without high instructions from the elder lady, grave and yet stirring narratives of the great men of old—how they strove fiercely, energetically, while strife could avail anything; and how, when the last hope was over, they folded their hands in stern and awful resignation, and met their fate unblenching, and with but one care—that the decorum of their deaths should not prove unworthy the dignity of their past lives.
Hortensia Mancini, Duchess de Mazarin, who was commonly thought to be the finest woman in Europe, and more than that a very great lady, aunt of the Duchess of York, might have easily supplanted the "baby-faced" Querouaille in the inconstant heart of Charles Stuart, but that the haughty Italian paid small attention to the predilections of that prince, whom she cut to the quick by receiving before his face the advances of the Prince de Monaco, and so Charles returned "
Certe ego in Hortensia gente unum, dictatorem reperio, et Consulem unum; dictatorem anno urbis 467 secessione plebis; consulem, Q. Hortensium hujus avum. Sed intellegit fortasse majores suos etiam ex gente materna."
More he might have added then, for the mad mood was upon him, awakened by those soft brown eyes of hers. But in that moment the others of that little party crowded upon them to take their leave of Mistress Winthrop. Mr. Caryll felt satisfied that enough had been done to curb the slander concerning Hortensia. But he was not long in learning how profound was his mistake.
"He might have made a husband for Hortensia, and rid me of the company of that white-faced changeling." "Might he so?" quoth the viscount, face and voice, expressionless. "They were made for each other," her ladyship opined. "Were they so?" "Ay were they. And faith they've discovered it. I would you had seen the turtles in the arbor an hour ago, when I surprised them."
Nor was it, indeed, to be wondered that Hortensia should be liable, above other women, not to base terror,—for of that from her high character she was incapable—but to a settled apprehension and distrust of the Roman Populace. It was now four-and-twenty years since the city had been disturbed by plebeian violence or aristocratic vengeance.
"Maybe she never will," said Elsie gloomily, "anyway till we all get gone." "Oh, Elsie!" protested Polly. "Well," was the outing retort, "if High Price stays here much longer " "She!" hushed Cornelius, "she's comin'!" For light steps sounded along the corridor. The children cast furtive, half-frightened glances towards the hall door; but it was not Miss Hortensia Price that smilingly opened it.
"Codso!" she swore, "I may take it, then, that your saving her as ye call it was no accident." "Indeed it was, ma'am and a most fortunate accident for your son." "For my son? As how?" "It saved him from hanging, ma'am," Mr. Caryll informed her, and gave her something other than the baiting of Hortensia to occupy her mind. "Hang?" she gasped. "Are you speaking of Lord Rotherby?"
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