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The illustrious personage so notoriously careful of his subject's morals who had deigned to interest himself in the marriage, might possibly, at the birth of a son and heir to the Guinigi, add a pension who knows? "Personally I should have declined it, personally; but the marchesa's commands were absolute: 'You must go yourself, I will permit no deputy." "Damn the marchesa!
Such a black frown clouded Nobili's countenance under the sting of her covert insults that Trenta hastily interposed. "Permit me to remind you, Marchesa Guinigi, that, subject to your approval, the conditions of the marriage have been already arranged by me and Fra Pacifico, before you consented to meet Count Nobili. The present interview is purely formal.
The great wooden door to the street is locked; a heavy chain is drawn across it. The Marchesa Guinigi has strictly commanded that it should be so. She will have nothing to do with the festival of the Holy Countenance. She will take no part in it whatever.
Pagolo Guinigi finding himself thus closely pressed, by the advice of Antonio del Rosso, then representative of the Siennese at Lucca, sent Salvestro Trento and Leonardo Bonvisi to Milan, to request assistance from the duke; but finding him indisposed to comply, they secretly engaged, on the part of the people, to deliver their governor up to him and give him possession of the place; at the same time intimating, that if he did not immediately follow this advice, he would not long have the opportunity, since it was the intention of Pagolo to surrender the city to the Florentines, who were very anxious to obtain it.
One word from him, and the Marchesa Guinigi would have availed herself of her legal claims in the most vindictive manner exposed family secrets made the whole transaction of the marriage public and so revenged herself upon him that Count Nobili would have no choice but to leave Lucca and Italy forever. "All this I have prevented," Guglielmi insisted emphatically. "How could I serve you better?
At that very moment he was encamped on the heights of San Miniato, preparing to besiege the hated rival of our city broken and reduced by the recent victory he had gained over her at Altopasso. At Altopasso he had defeated and humiliated Florence. Now he had planted our flag under her very walls. Upon the arrival of the ambassadors sent by the Lucchese Republic one of whom was a Guinigi "
"I did not know that the Marchesa Guinigi ever received young men." As Nobili said this he fixed his eyes upon Enrica's face. What could he read there but assurance of the perfect innocence within? Yet the name of Count Marescotti had grated upon his ear like a discord clashing among sweet sounds. He shook the feeling off, however, for the time. Again he was her gracious lover.
Let me tell you, and through you the Marchesa Guinigi, without that deed and my own free will," he added in a lower tone, "neither you nor she would have forced me here to this marriage; I came because I considered some reparation was due to a young lady whose name has been cruelly outraged. Else I would have died first!
Here Baldassare rose and leaned over from behind. "I went up the Guinigi Tower with the party," he ventured to say. "There were four of us. The Cavaliere Trenta told me in the street just before that it was all right, and that the lady had agreed to marry Count Marescotti. There can be no secret about it now that every one knows it.
Nobili was angry with her she was sure he was angry with her. "I met him at my aunt's one evening," she said at last, gathering courage as she stole her little hand into one of his, and knit her fingers tightly within his own. "We went up into the Guinigi Tower together. There were dear old Trenta and Baldassare Lena with us." "Indeed!" replied Nobili, coldly.
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