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She swore her oath of office to me, and I to her gave mine, as solemnly to help her with my life. It is a heavy load for such tender hands to lift: a question if one may conquer wile with innocency yet the strife is noble." "What may be done to help her?" Dama Margherita questioned, heavy-hearted. "What is my part? It is not only the scandal of watching against intrigue."
But Caterina would not rest until she had found the occasion for speech: and so soon as she chanced to be alone with Dama Margherita, she announced, without preamble, that she would presently command a right royal festival to please the nobles but lately come to court, with jousts of song and floral games, "and I myself will give the prize, and thou Cara Margherita, being my faithful Dama di Maridaggio, shall be the Queen thereof."
"Nay: leave the Queen to the Dama Margherita for this one blissful morning," she interrupted without ceremony: "for I have news verily; and they may return ere it be told. Which of you knoweth aught of the Holy Sister Violante she of the down-held lids and silent ways who slipped into the court the night of that great signal fire upon the mountain, behind the citadel?"
He left rather abruptly, struggling with a sense of self-disgust in that he had been led to talk of Margherita unnecessarily, yet with a curious undercurrent of excitement running through his mood. Miss Myra Nell Warren seldom commenced her toilet with that feeling of pleasurable anticipation common to most girls of her age.
"I saw them all the time Dama Margherita was reciting Holy Mother, but it was long! I thought the King was coming, and it was I that should carry the news to her Majesty I came near crying out! But I could not see his orange plume, and I waited. They came slowly Santissima Vergine! He was not there!" He clutched his comrade's doublet with a trembling hand and turned an ashen face towards him.
Myra Nell's ready acquiescence was a shock to Norvin, arguing, as it did, that these people regarded the Countess Margherita as an employee. Could it be that they were so utterly blind? He was allowed little time for such thoughts, however, since Myra Nell set herself to the agreeable task of unmasking her lover and confounding Montegut La Branche.
"He had need to be brave," Margherita went on when she could command her voice, for the Queen's great eyes were beseeching, "for Queen Elen
But she shook her head. "Thou who hast been all faith and service, counting thy life naught thou knowest. She in her trouble should see that we think but of her." "Is this thy answer most worshipful Margherita?" Again she turned her eyes to his serene and deep no hint of trouble in them. "There hath been no question," she said; "there can be no answer, where there hath been no question."
In this his old age, then, he painted a panel for the Nuns of S. Margherita at Arezzo, and one for the Company of S. Girolamo, which was paid for in part by Messer Niccolò Gamurrini, Doctor of Laws and Auditor of the Ruota, who is portrayed from life in that panel, kneeling before the Madonna, to whom he is being presented by a S. Nicholas who is in the same panel; there are also S. Donatus and S. Stephen, and lower down a nude S. Jerome, and a David who is singing to a psaltery; and also two prophets, who, as it appears from the scrolls that they have in their hands, are speaking about the Conception.
And what moved the Duke to have that altar-piece executed by Domenico was his having seen and much liked his manner in an altar-piece that Domenico had painted long before for the Chapel of S. Margherita in the Duomo of Mantua, in competition with Paolino, who painted that of S. Antonio, with Paolo Farinato, who executed that of S. Martino, and with Battista del Moro, who painted that of the Magdalene; all which four Veronese had been summoned thither by Cardinal Ercole of Mantua, in order to adorn that church, which had been reconstructed by him after the design of Giulio Romano.
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