"But say, will your father take you back to Rome, now that he has sent away Benoni ?" "No, he will not.

He swears that I shall stay here until I can forget you." The fair head rested again on his shoulder.
"It appears to me that your most high and noble father has amazingly done perjury in his oath," remarked Nino, resting his hand on her hair, from which the thick black veil that had muffled it had slipped back.

"What do you think, love ?" "I do not know," replied Hedwig, in a low voice.
"Why, dear, you have only to close this door behind you, and you may laugh at your prison and your jailer!" "Oh, I could not, Nino; and besides, I am weak, and cannot walk very far.

And we should have to walk very far, you know." "You, darling?
Do you think I would not and could not bear you from here to Rome in these arms ?" As he spoke he lifted her bodily from the step.
"Oh!" she cried, half frightened, half thrilled, "how strong you are, Nino!" "Not I; it is my love.

But I have beasts close by, waiting even now; good stout mules, that will think you are only a little silver butterfly that has flitted down from the moon for them to carry." "Have you done that, dear ?" she asked, doubtfully, while her heart leaped at the thought.