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This greatly displeased the signors; but without disclosing the extent of their displeasure, they contrived to amuse the multitude with promises, till they had assembled a sufficient body of armed men, and then took such measures, that fear induced the people to lay aside the weapons which madness had led them to take up.
There be a pair could keep a score such as thee a writing night and day. But I'll speak to Teresa; she hears the gossip of the court." The next day she told him she had seen Teresa, and had heard of five more signors who were bitten with the writing spider. Gerard took down their names, and bought parchment, and busied himself for some days in preparing specimens.
Among the few whom he distinguished, were the Signors Bertolini, Orsino, and Verezzi. The first was a man of gay temper, strong passions, dissipated, and of unbounded extravagance, but generous, brave, and unsuspicious.
She who was born with the instinct of good manners behaved with the grace of a nymph and the dignity of a French princess; and as soon as she was seated between two grave and reverend signors, she began by saying that she was delighted to find herself the only representative of her sex in this distinguished company, and also that there were no Frenchmen present.
They say that he himself appeared last night, and this morning on the tilting ground by the quay, and by God's mercy if He has any left for us I can well believe it. The Doge and his Council but now have issued a decree that all who perish must be buried at once. See to it, signors, lest the officers come and bear her away to some common grave, from which her rank will not protect her."
This advice, given by those who had been the leaders of the tumult, although the others yielded, filled Alamanno Acciajuoli and Niccolo del Bene, two of the Signors, with anger; and, reassuming a little vigor, they said, that if the others would withdraw they could not help it, but they would remain as long as they continued in office, if they did not in the meantime lose their lives.
It was the chamber at the end of the corridor, Signors, where we had the affray, last night. From that hour, she was seen no more. 'How! seen no more! said Bertolini, 'was not her body found in the chamber? 'Were her remains never found? cried the rest of the company all together. 'Never! replied Montoni. 'What reasons were there to suppose she destroyed herself, then? said Bertolini.
In a few minutes the door was again opened, and Pedro came in with a chatty of water. "He has disappeared like magic, signors, and is no where to be found. We have searched everywhere, but in vain." "Who? the little old seaman?" "Yes, he whom you kicked as you were led to prison. The people all say, that it must have been a ghost.
The city was, as we have before shown, divided into sixths; and hence there would be six signors, one for each sixth, except when, from some more than ordinary cause, there had been twelve or thirteen created; but when this had occurred they were again soon reduced to six.
'But the Signor will oblige us with the reasons, which urged him to believe, that the lady committed suicide. 'Those I will explain hereafter, said Montoni: 'at present let me relate a most extraordinary circumstance. This conversation goes no further, Signors. Listen, then, to what I am going to say. 'Listen! said a voice. They were all again silent, and the countenance of Montoni changed.
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