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Then San Miniato went to fetch the Marchesa, marshalling in his two porters with their chair between them. "Dearest Marchesa," said the Count, "if you will give yourself the trouble to sit in this chair, I will promise that no further exertion shall be required of you." The Marchesa di Mola looked up with a glance of sleepy astonishment. "And why in that chair, dearest friend?
The nearer coast was hidden from view, but away at the left was a dull white streak marking the old wall of Taormina, and above this the ruined citadel and the ancient castle of Mola each on its separate peak. "I must be getting back," he thought, and sliding down the surface of the rock he presently returned to the path from whence he had climbed.
On the land-side Etna fills the south with its lifted snow-fields, now smoke-plumed at the languid cone; and thence, though lingeringly, the eye ranges nearer over the intervening plain to the well-wooded ridge of Castiglione, and, next, to the round solitary top of Monte Maestra, with its long shoreward descent, and comes to rest on the height of Taormina overhead, with its hermitage of Santa Maria della Rocca, its castle, and Mola.
I cannot hear the torrent, now a narrow stream, deep below me, but I see the women of Mola washing by the old fountain which is its source. There is no other sign of human life. The fresh spring flowers, large and coarse, but bright-coloured, are all I have of company, and the sky is blue and the air like crystal.
While Ruggiero was talking with the one who was awake, his own brother appeared, and Ruggiero gave him the message, whereupon Sebastiano went off to array himself in his best before presenting himself to the Marchesa di Mola. The Son of the Fool gathered up his work. "Mola?" he repeated in a tone of inquiry. Ruggiero nodded carelessly. "A Sicilian lady who has a cutter?" "Yes."
For he, being gifted with a gentle sense of humor, together with a patient love of the origin of things, was questing in his quiet mind what had led a boy to render a well-known line as follows: "Such a quantity of salt there was, to season the Roman nation." Presently he hit upon the clue to this great mystery. "Mola, the salted cake," he said; "and the next a little error of conjugation.
About six o'clock in the evening, the enemy, to the number of seventeen ships, thirteen of which appeared to be very large, advanced in order; but about seven tacked, with a view to gain the weather-gage. Mr. Byng, in order to preserve that advantage, as well as to make sure of the land-wind in the morning, followed their example, being then about five leagues from Cape Mola.
The last teeth, which are placed at the back of the jaw, are called molars, from the Latin word mola, which means a millstone. You must be prepared to meet with several Latin words as we go on; but never mind; this will give you the opportunity of learning a little Latin, and so of keeping your brother in order, if he ever looks down upon you because he is learning Latin at school.
"Are you the Count of San Miniato's boatman?" she asked in her sweet voice. "Yes, Eccellenza," answered Ruggiero, still blushing violently "Then he has engaged the boat? We want a boat, too the Marchesa di Mola can you get us one?" "There is my brother, Eccellenza." "Is he a good sailor?" "Better than I, Eccellenza." Beatrice looked at the figure before her and smiled graciously.
The Messenians came and surprised the lower city of Taormina, but they could not gain Mola nor persuade Matteo to yield Riccardo up to them. So they thought to overcome his fidelity cruelly. They took his wife and children, who were at Messina, threw them into a dungeon, and condemned them to death. Then they sent Matteo's brother-in-law to treat with him.
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