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Updated: May 13, 2025
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."
She had suddenly flushed and grown pale again. Then a new thought came to her. "But she also is a Dama di Maridaggio she also. Thou mightest tell that for a bit of gossip to the Queen, who, perchance, hath influence with the Signor Bernardini." She had laid her hand again on Elois
"How to thy 'displeasure'? What 'rights'?" "His right of Lord of the fiefs for our lands are gifts of the Crown to choose a husband for his dama di maridaggio who suiteth not her fancy." "Nay, verily, Ecciva, he is a noble gentleman he would not press thee too hard, thou wouldst protest." "Aye, I should protest I would protest.
"It is a right of our house for many generations," she explained; "being allied with royalty through the elder branch of the Montferrats, I am a dama di maridaggio by birth, and since there is no son of our house to offer homage in return for our fiefs, the duty was mine to do service to our King and claim our lands of him again.
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."
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