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It was an hour of such torture and anguish as never before I had experienced much though I had undergone and the source of all my suffering lay in the fact that Madonna Paola was in the hands of the ogre of Cesena.
I think that really there was an element of fear in my feelings fear that, upon reflection, Madonna Paola might ask herself how came that burning sincerity into the love-songs written in her honour which it was now disclosed that I had penned.
After the expiration of my contract with Paola Ortega I remained in a state of single blessedness for some time, and then married Gregoria Sosa, in the summer of 1879. Gregoria rewarded me with one child, a boy, who is now living in Nogales.
Then he looked again, and being a man whose mind was above puerile superstitions, he assured himself that by what miracle the thing was wrought, the figure before him was the living body of Madonna Paola Sforza di Santafior. He swept the velvet cap with its jewelled plume from off his auburn locks, and bowed low before her.
He looked at the ring, and of what passed in his mind I can but offer a surmise. He may have remembered that once before I had fooled him with the help of that gold circlet; or he may have thought that I was secretly in the service of the Borgias, and that, acting in their interests, I had carried off Madonna Paola. Be that as it may, the sight of the ring threw him into a fury.
She told me then that she was Madonna Paola Sforza di Santafior, and that Pope Alexander, in his nepotism and his desire to make rich and powerful alliances for his family, had settled upon her as the wife for his nephew, Ignacio Borgia. He had been emboldened to this step by the fact that her only protector was her brother, Filippo di Santafior, whom they had sought to coerce.
My relations with Paola were eminently satisfactory until the expiration of the contract, when she went her way and I mine. Before I leave the subject of Phoenix it will be well to mention that when I left I sold all my property there, consisting of some twenty-two lots, all in the heart of the city, for practically a song. Six of these lots were situated where now is a big planing mill.
"Whenever summoned, you will find me ready, general," I exclaimed; "and I call my friends here to witness my promise." "Well spoken, my young patriot," cried the general, stretching across the table to take my hand; while Donna Paola smiled her approval. "Remember, Barry, that your promise is but conditional," whispered my uncle; "your father may have other work for you."
This is the third day of sirocco, heavy-clouded, sunless. All the colour has gone out of Naples; the streets are dusty and stifling. I long for the mountains and the sea. To-morrow I shall leave by the Messina boat, which calls at Paola. It is now more than a twelvemonth since I began to think of Paola, and an image of the place has grown in my mind.
Say I not well, Donna Paola?" he added, turning to the young lady. A rich colour mounted to her brow, as with kindling eye she replied, "Heaven will favour the righteous cause, and aid you, General Bermudez, and your brave followers, in the glorious undertaking." She spoke in a firm yet sweet and melodious voice, and I at once saw that she was an enthusiast in the cause.
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