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Updated: May 7, 2025
There is one among the maids of honor most rare and noble bounden by special vows of fealty, as a Dama di Maridaggio, to marry at the command of her Sovereign." He stood before her quite unabashed and smiling, while she scanned him in surprise. "Margherita de Iblin?" she questioned, half unbelieving. "Margherita!" he answered, radiantly; "there is no other."
Upon the maxims of this ancient work, faithfully digested in the famous law-schools of Nikosia by their greatest scholars, the present volume of Assizes had been founded; and among those most largely concerned in its authorship was Joan of Iblin the distinguished ancestor of Dama Margherita.
"Not so most gracious Lord and Emperor!" Joan of Iblin had made dauntless answer; "for my tutelage is by order of the Queen, his mother, who holdeth the regency justly, and by the laws of Cyprus and of Jerusalem which, with all courtesy, I will defend. I make appeal unto the courts for this our right!"
Then the chanting voices hushed and the rapid motions ceased: and under that spell they saw, as in a vision, luminous in the darkness, the kneeling knights of that early court of Cyprus, and in their midst, the gray-haired Joan of Iblin and the boyish monarch, in his young, rosy strength a vision of love and loyalty!
"Nay, beloved Sovereign Lady; it is not legend but simple historic truth, which your Majesty hath granted me permission to narrate a tale of love and loyalty of the annals of our house; and out of it hath come this Cyprian proverb: 'Quel che Iblin è non si può trovar. 'Such an one as Iblin may no man find!" Dama Margherita, usually so pale and grave, was flushed and eager; her deep eyes sparkled; her breath came fast.
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