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"My gracious Lord," said Jaquez, "if it please your Highness to hear me; Diego and I, according to your Highness's orders, went to search for the young Lady; but being comprehensive that we might meet the ghost of my young Lord, your Highness's son, God rest his soul, as he has not received Christian burial " "Sot!" cried Manfred in a rage; "is it only a ghost, then, that thou hast seen?"
"Why, my Lord," replied Jaquez, trembling, "I was going to tell your Highness, that since the calamitous misfortune of my young Lord, God rest his precious soul! not one of us your Highness's faithful servants indeed we are, my Lord, though poor men I say, not one of us has dared to set a foot about the castle, but two together: so Diego and I, thinking that my young Lady might be in the great gallery, went up there to look for her, and tell her your Highness wanted something to impart to her."
"Oh! worse! worse! my Lord," cried Diego: "I had rather have seen ten whole ghosts." "Grant me patience!" said Manfred; "these blockheads distract me. Out of my sight, Diego! and thou, Jaquez, tell me in one word, art thou sober? art thou raving? thou wast wont to have some sense: has the other sot frightened himself and thee too? Speak; what is it he fancies he has seen?"
"What new absurdity is this?" cried Manfred; "give me a direct answer, or, by Heaven " "Why, my Lord, if it please your Highness to hear me," said the poor fellow, "Diego and I " "Yes, I and Jaquez " cried his comrade. "Did not I forbid you to speak both at a time?" said the Prince: "you, Jaquez, answer; for the other fool seems more distracted than thou art; what is the matter?"
The first that arrived, replied, "Oh, my Lord! I am glad we have found you." "Found me!" said Manfred; "have you found the Princess?" "We thought we had, my Lord," said the fellow, looking terrified, "but " "But, what?" cried the Prince; "has she escaped?" "Jaquez and I, my Lord " "Yes, I and Diego," interrupted the second, who came up in still greater consternation.
"My Lord," said Jaquez, "when Diego and I came into the gallery, he went first, for he said he had more courage than I. So when we came into the gallery we found nobody. We looked under every bench and stool; and still we found nobody." "Were all the pictures in their places?" said Manfred. "Yes, my Lord," answered Jaquez; "but we did not think of looking behind them."
"Well, well!" said Manfred; "proceed." "When we came to the door of the great chamber," continued Jaquez, "we found it shut." "And could not you open it?" said Manfred. "Oh! yes, my Lord; would to Heaven we had not!" replied he "nay, it was not I neither; it was Diego: he was grown foolhardy, and would go on, though I advised him not if ever I open a door that is shut again "
"Speak one of you at a time," said Manfred; "I ask you, where is the Princess?" "We do not know," said they both together; "but we are frightened out of our wits." "So I think, blockheads," said Manfred; "what is it has scared you thus?" "Oh! my Lord," said Jaquez, "Diego has seen such a sight! your Highness would not believe our eyes."
"Trifle not," said Manfred, shuddering, "but tell me what you saw in the great chamber on opening the door." "I! my Lord!" said Jaquez; "I was behind Diego; but I heard the noise." "Jaquez," said Manfred, in a solemn tone of voice; "tell me, I adjure thee by the souls of my ancestors, what was it thou sawest? what was it thou heardest?"
The enormous sabre I was directed to in the wood, yon casque, its fellow are these visions of this poor maiden's brain?" "So Jaquez thinks, may it please your Greatness," said Bianca. "He says this moon will not be out without our seeing some strange revolution.
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