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Updated: August 13, 2024
And never did river reflect the stars more clearly, than your heart then mirrored back the truth. I trust you!" While thus speaking, he had mechanically led back the Colonna to the statue of the Lion; there pausing, he resumed: "Know that I have this morning despatched my delegate to your cousin Stefanello.
Stefanello himself, in the first bloom of youth, bore already on his beardless countenance those traces usually the work of the passions and vices of maturest manhood.
If Rienzi return, I may mediate successfully, perchance, between the Tribune-Senator and the nobles; and if I find my cousin, young Stefanello, now the head of our house, more tractable than his sires, I shall not despair of conciliating the less powerful Barons. Rome wants repose; and whoever governs, if he govern but with justice, ought to be supported both by prince and plebeian!"
"For my part," said Stefanello, "I feel that we have but a choice of evils I like not a foreign Podesta; but I like a plebeian Senator still less; there too is my hand, Sir Knight." "Noble Signors," said Montreal, after a short pause, and turning his piercing gaze from one to the other with great deliberation, "our compact is sealed; one word by way of codicil.
"Stay, noble Orsini," said Stefanello. "The insult offered to thee is my quarrel mine was the deed and against me speaks this degenerate scion of our line. Adrian di Castello sometime called Colonna surrender your sword: you are my prisoner!" "Oh!" said Adrian, grinding his teeth, "that my ancestral blood did not flow through thy veins else but enough!
He had left Stefanello a child on his departure from Rome, and there could therefore be but a slight and unfamiliar acquaintance betwixt them, despite their kindred. Peals of laughter came upon his ear, as he followed one of Stefanello's gentlemen through a winding passage that led to the principal chamber.
"You are next accused of treasonable conspiracy against the liberties of Rome for the restoration of the proscribed Barons and of traitorous correspondence with Stefanello Colonna at Palestrina." "My accuser?" "Step forth, Angelo Villani!" "You are my betrayer, then?" said Montreal steadily. "I deserved this. I beseech you, Senator of Rome, let this young man retire.
"But cheer thee, I say; is not our first care to destroy Rienzi, and then, between the death of one foe and the rise of another, are there not such preventives as Ezzelino da Romano has taught to wary men? Cheer thee, I say; and, next year, if we but hold together, Stefanello Colonna and Luca di Savelli will be joint Senators of Rome, and these great men food for worms!"
Adrian, his drawn sword in his hand, strode towards the door, and passed the Orsini, who stood, lowering and irresolute, in the centre of the apartment. Savelli whispered Stefanello. "He says, 'Ere many days be past! Be sure, dear Signor, that he goes to join Rienzi. Remember, the alliance he once sought with the Tribune's sister may be renewed. Beware of him! Ought he to leave the castle?
"That did he!" said the fierce Orsini, approaching Adrian menacingly, while the gentle cowardice of Savelli sought in vain to pluck him back by the mantle "that did he! and but for thy presence, Stefanello "
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