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"I am seeking knowledge concerning Madonna Paolo di Santafior," he said presently, resuming, as he spoke, his seat at table. "As I told you, the body, which was believed to be dead, was stolen in the night from San Domenico. Know you aught of this?" It may be an ignoble thing to lie, but with what other weapon was I to fight this brigand?
"Will it please you, Illustrious, to allow me a few moments' conversation with Madonna Paola di Santafior?" I invested my tones with a weight of meaning that did not escape him. His face suddenly lightened; whilst one of his officers a fellow very fitly named Lupone laughed outright. "Your hero seems none so heroic after all," he said derisively to the Governor.
Early in 1498 the Lord Giovanni showed himself once more abroad, and he seemed again the same weak, cruel, pleasure-loving tyrant he had been before shame overtook him and drove him for a season into hiding. Madonna Paola and her brother, Filippo di Santafior, remained in Pesaro, where they now appeared to have taken up their permanent abode.
That swelling of the Borgia fortunes which in the three years had taken place and which, he contended, would render them more ambitious than to seek alliance with the House of Santafior, rendered them, nevertheless, in his eyes a more desirable family to be allied with than in the days when he had counselled his sister's flight from Rome.
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