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Henceforward his path lay in pleasant places, for the young people were thrown a great deal into each others society, and in time it became evident that the lady returned the young soldiers tender passion. Yet Werner did not dare to declare his love, for Margaretha was a maiden of high degree, and he but a poor musician who not so very long ago had been a homeless wanderer.
She had not signed it with her convent title, but with the initials M. T., for her proper name, Margaretha Thome. There were many fluctuations in Tabea's mind and many persuasive notes from Scheible before the nun at length promised to forsake the convent, now grown bitter to her, for the joys of a home.
Terrible, indeed, was the appearance of Nisida! Like to an avenging deity was she no longer woman in the glory of her charms and the elegance of her disguise, but a fury a very fiend, an implacable demoness, armed with the blasting lightnings of infernal malignity and hellish rancor! "Holy Virgin, protect me!" shrieked Margaretha, every nerve thrilling with the agony of ineffable alarm.
Her lovers peril had taught Margaretha beyond a doubt where her affections lay, and she showed such unfeigned delight at his recovery that he forgot the difference in their rank and told her of his love. There on the terrace they plighted their troth, and vowed to remain true to each other, whatever might befall.
A terrific scream burst from the lips of Margaretha; and she threw her wild looks around as if she were going mad. "Detestable woman!" exclaimed Nisida, fixing her burning eyes more intently still on Margaretha's countenance: "you are now about to pay the penalty of your complicity in the most odious crimes that ever made nights terrible in Florence! The period of vengeance has at length arrived!
"'Behold, Vitangela, how the scalpel hews that form so loved by thee! Now hack away at the countenance deface that beauty pick out those mild blue eyes! and I laughed madly! "The countess fainted, and I ordered her to be carried back to her apartment, where Margaretha awaited her.
In Bruges, when the Van Eycks were inventing new methods in the preparation of colors, and painting their wonderful pictures, beside them, and scarcely inferior to them, was their sister, Margaretha, who sacrificed much of her artistic fame by painting portions of her brothers' pictures, unless the fact that they thought her worthy of thus assisting them establishes her reputation beyond question.
But it then struck me that I should only attract undue attention to myself by conducting at a public tavern a correspondence having so important an aspect, and I accordingly rose very early in the morning to sally forth to seek after a secluded but respectable lodging, I eventually obtained suitable apartments in the house of a widow named Dame Margaretha, and there I immediately took up my abode.
And she wrung her hands bitterly, while tears streamed down her wrinkled cheeks. "No, he is not dead, Margaretha!" exclaimed Nisida; "but he is dying and he implored me, by everything I deemed sacred, to hasten thither and fetch you to him, that he may receive your blessing and close his eyes in peace."
Two persons, concealed in an adjacent grove, had overheard every syllable of the above conversation. These were the valet Antonio, and his mother, Dame Margaretha, at whose dwelling, it will be recollected, the unfortunate Agnes had so long resided, under the protection of the late Count of Riverola.
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