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Full of the pleasure I had received from the Rosiere de Salency, I was impatient to pay a visit to Madame de Genlis. A few days afterwards we dined with Mr. and Mrs. Scotto, rather a stupid party of gentlemen. After dinner my father called me out of the room and said, "Now we will go to see Madame de Genlis."
No matter! our banquet today will soon brighten the current of your gay blood." "Blood, Tribune!" said di Scotto, who was innocent of the plot: "Thou sayest blood, and lo! on the floor are large gouts of it not yet dry." "Now, out on thee, old hero, for betraying my awkwardness! I pricked myself with my own dagger in unrobing. Thank Heaven it hath no poison in its blade!"
Dante describes him among those whose faces were turned backward, because they had refused to turn the right way: "Michele Scotto fu, che veramente De le magiche frode seppe il gioco." In Scotland marvellous tales were current of him, and his own clansman, Sir Walter, in his lay, has spread the mysterious tale of the Wizard and his mighty book far and wide.
Rienzi alone did not, however, seem to notice his disorder; and when Vico di Scotto, an old knight, from whose hands he received his sword, asked him how he had passed the night, he replied, cheerfully "Well, well my brave friend! Over a maiden knight some good angel always watches. Signor Luca di Savelli, I fear you have slept but ill: you seem pale.
But if discovered; " and Savelli, who, fortunately for his foes, had not nerves equal to his will, covered his face and shuddered; "I think I hear a noise! no is it the wind? tush, it must be old Vico de Scotto, turning in his shell of mail! silent I like not that silence! No cry no sound! Can the ruffian have played us false? or could he not scale the casement?
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