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Updated: July 9, 2025
"But how came she ill, 'because of it, as thou sayest, Ecciva?" Elois
"There is more, Ecciva! that which cometh after? subito for the Lady of the Bernardini might return!" They were all clamoring about her. "And Alicia verily brought him to the Queen's audience-chamber?" "Nay bide my time, chatterers, if you would hear the tale for it hath a sequel we do not often get one good enough to be spoiled by a too hasty telling.
The man stood waiting at the door of his study, until he called to him: "Thou hast a message for me from ?" "The Dama Ecciva de Montferrat, Eccellentissimo," the messenger answered, readily. "Deliver it."
The Sister Violante came to win Her Majesty to acquiesce in some strange bidding from Rhodes; or perchance from the Sultan himself." "How knowest thou, Ecciva?"
But this night of the signal fire is but a month agone and that night came Tristan de Giblet to talk with his sister, who let him into the Palazzo Reale. The daring of the man! We are not cowards we Cyprians!" "Ecciva! how canst thou verily be sure!" She touched her eyes again, mysteriously.
"If the Lady of the Bernardini were here " "Aye but she is not." Ecciva returned placidly: "The Madonna be praised for a moment's liberty to utter one's thought!
They left with me that night a message for the dear Queen whom they might not reach with speech, to spare her greater anguish, if they came not back. For, oh my God, how she hath suffered!" "It is yet more a poem," Ecciva exclaimed, stirred by the hope of further romance, and already half ashamed that she had shown her momentary feeling of jealousy. "The message tell it!"
She looked at them nonchalantly, well-pleased at any sort of dominance, but never confessing it by her attitude. "Have I not eyes?" she questioned, with tantalizing slowness; "and ears? Are they to grow dull for lack of usage?" "Nay; tell us, Ecciva." She drew nearer and lowered her voice mysteriously.
"The Lady Margherita!" Ecciva echoed with a scornful toss of her head. "Doth one seek a bride no longer young when one is a man like that? Nor nor beautiful? She is not beautiful!" "She is more rare than beautiful," Elois
"How to thy 'displeasure'? What 'rights'?" "His right of Lord of the fiefs for our lands are gifts of the Crown to choose a husband for his dama di maridaggio who suiteth not her fancy." "Nay, verily, Ecciva, he is a noble gentleman he would not press thee too hard, thou wouldst protest." "Aye, I should protest I would protest.
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