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I suppose you have heard the news? 'Who has not? It is in every one's mouth. 'What have you heard? asked Barizy of the Tower, with an air of malicious curiosity. 'Some things that everybody knows, replied Pasqualigo, 'and some things that nobody knows.
'They were not Kurds, said the Consul Pasqualigo. 'They were Russians in disguise. Some cannon have been taken, which were cast at St. Petersburg; and, besides, there is a portfolio of state papers found on a Cossack, habited as a Turkman, which betrays all. The documents are to be published in numbers, with explanatory commentaries.
'Well, if people will purchase crucifixes and nothing else, they must be supplied. Commerce civilises man. 'Who is this? exclaimed the Consul Pasqualigo. A couple of horsemen, well mounted, but travel-worn, and followed by a guard of Bedouins, were coming up the Via Dolorosa, and stopped at the house of Hassan Nejid. ''Tis the English prince, said Barizy of the Tower.
Consul-General Laurella writes from Damascus that the Eastern question is more alive than ever. We are on the eve of great events. 'You don't say so? said Barizy of the Tower, losing his presence of mind from this overwhelming superiority of information. 'I always thought so. Palmerston will never rest till he gets Jerusalem. 'The English must have markets, said the Consul Pasqualigo.
What is, however, more to the point, is a letter from Pasqualigo, a Venetian merchant, who says, writing to Venice, on the twenty-third of August, 1497, that Cabot had discovered the mainland at seven hundred leagues to the west, and had sailed along it for a coast of three hundred leagues. He says the voyage was three months in length. It was made, then, between May and August, 1497.
Thus Gl' Intricati, printed in 1581, and acted a few years before at Zara, the work of Count Alvise, or, it would appear, more correctly Luigi, Pasqualigo, contains a farcical and magical part combined with some rather coarse jesting between two rogues, one Spanish and one Bolognese, who speak in their respective dialects.
The Consul Pasqualigo looked very grave; then, withdrawing his lips for a moment from his amber mouthpiece, he observed, 'It is a crisis. 'It will be a crisis, said Barizy of the Tower, excited by finding his rival a listener, 'but not for a long time. The crisis has not commenced. The first question is: to whom does the desert belong; to the Porte, or to the Viceroy?
Pasqualigo, not having a repartee ready, shot at his habitual comrade a glance of withering contempt, and stalked away. In the meantime, Tancred dismounted and entered for the first time his house at Jerusalem, of which he had been the nominal tenant for half a year.
'For internal shocks, said Barizy of the Tower, 'there is nothing like rosemary stewed with salt, and so keep on till it simmers. 'That is very well for a bruise, said the Consul Pasqualigo. 'A bruise is a shock, said Barizy of the Tower. 'Besso should have remained at Aleppo, said the Consul.
'Besso always comes to Jerusalem when he is indisposed, said Barizy; 'as he well says, 'tis the only air that can cure him; and, if he cannot be cured, why, at least, he can be buried in the Valley of Je-hoshaphat. 'He is not at Jerusalem, said the Consul Pasqualigo, maliciously. 'How do you mean? said Barizy, somewhat confused.
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