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Updated: July 12, 2025
She was certain that the saya y manto had been frequently employed to enable Rosita to enjoy dissipation, when her husband's condition would have rendered her public appearance impossible; and at the Opera or on the Alameda, Robson might have had every opportunity of paying her attention, and forwarding her amusements.
I make an exception in favour of the goddesses, and especially of your Majesty, added Tiresias, who piqued himself on his gallantry. While they were thus conversing, the Queen directed the attention of Manto to a mountainous elevation which now began to rise in the distance, and which, from the rapidity of the tide and the freshness of the breeze, they approached at a swift rate.
'So be it, my dear friend. Thus saying, the Queen descended her throne, and leaving the rest of her retinue to follow with all possible despatch, embarked on board the infernal yacht, with Tiresias, Manto, the chief cook, and some chosen attendants, and bid adieu for the first time, not without agitation, to the gloomy banks of Tartarus.
'By no means, my kind Manto, replied Proserpine, starting from her reverie. 'But the truth is, my spirits are unequal; and though I really cannot well fix upon the cause of their present depression, I am apparently not free from the contagion of the surrounding gloom. 'It is the evening air, said Tiresias. 'Your Majesty had perhaps better re-enter the pavilion of the yacht.
He too calls a train from his native coasts, Ocnus, son of prophetic Manto and the river of Tuscany, who gave thee, O Mantua, ramparts and his mother's name; Mantua, rich in ancestry, yet not all of one blood, a threefold race, and under each race four cantons; herself she is the cantons' head, and her strength is of Tuscan blood.
Responsibility and reflection never seemed to be impressed on that childish mind. Mary had come in for some of the anger, for not having prevented Rosita's expedition; but they were both speedily forgiven, and Mary never was informed again of her using the saya y manto. Their minds were diverted by the eager desire of one of the young officers to visit the silver mines.
'May it please your Majesty, I make it a rule never to think. I know too much. 'Let us embark immediately! 'Certainly; I would recommend your Majesty to get off at once. Myself and Manto will accompany you, and the cooks. If an order arrive to stay our departure, we can then send back the priests. 'You counsel well, Tiresias. I wish you had not been absent on my arrival.
'Will your Majesty re-ascend your litter? suggested Manto. 'Oh, no! that is worse than anything. They are a mile behind; they are so slow. Why, Manto! what is this? A beautiful white dove hovered in the air over the head of Proserpine and her attendant, and then dropping an olive branch into the lap of the Queen, flapped its wings and whirled away.
"But who shall be Regent?" inquired some one when Virgil had been elected unanimously. "Who but we?" asked Eustachio and Leonardo. "Are we not the heads of the Virgilian party?" Thus had the enthusiastic Manto, purest of idealists, installed in authority the two most unprincipled politicians in the republic; and she had lost her lover besides, for Benedetto fled the city, vowing vengeance.
Tiresias, dismounting from his chariot, and leaning on Manto, now approached her Majesty, and requesting her royal commands, recommended her to lose no time in getting on board.
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