human
We know not what echoes there may be within those walls,
gpt
Your Excellencies are expected: the citizens await you:
human
From whom dost hold thy orders?
gpt
From the Signor Bernardini, commander of the city,
human
Then speak.
gpt
The Signor Bernardini hath this night rescued our infant Prince from the galley of Naples---- He supplemented the statement with an angry oath coupled with Rizzo's name.
human
We know not where our Signor hath hidden him.
gpt
And the Queen?
human
The Signor hath waited for help to come: it is said that her rescue will be this day. In the Palazzo Reale the guard hath been trebled for her defense, and every man would give his life for the Queen.
gpt
Is there more?
human
Aye, your Excellency: rumor hath it that that devil of a Rizzo hath forced Her Majesty to give him letters of surrender for every fortress of Cyprus, and that to-day he is gone, with other traitors, to receive the keys of all our citadels. _Panagia mou!_ he is capable of every treachery! If he were not within----