human
The fellow should be thrust through for his insolence. A Cyprian master is good enough for Cyprus,
gpt
What matters it? his comrade answered him nonchalantly,
human
But of the very household of our Queen:--speak soft! Our Queen?--Perchance this night may be her undoing--how runs King Giacomo's will? Yea, for the matter of the fiefs, she hath been royal with her gifts--a matter not so lordly when confiscation cometh thus easily.
gpt
But she hath a royal way with her, as of one born to the throne, and for that matter it were not strange for one of the house of Cornelii--they held their heads proudly enough in Venice, I am told; and her mother was of the blood of a Comnenus--more royal than a Lusignan, if not so well tempered.
human
Aye; she is well enough.
gpt
And she hath a grace that hath verily won the people; never was there such a crowd in the time of any other Queen. See how they throng before her gates to-night--poor simple souls--conquered by a smile that costeth naught.
human
Nay; it is not strange; for the people entered little into the thought of Queen Carlotta, or Queen Elenà. There is no harm in her; she is a good child, and beautiful enough to be a saint; with too little understanding of the ways of our court: too great a saint for Janus--by every blessed saint of Cyprus! But I had rather she had more earthliness and wile than be the pawn of Venice. A Cyprian for the Cypriotes! Our Janus were better;--a Lusignan--not too much a saint--not a child nor a woman neither--but masterful: less the pawn of Venice.
gpt
As well of Venice with her fleets and commerce, as of Naples--if it be not a Cyprian. How sayest thou? And it was King Janus himself who gave Pelendria--that most royal and bountiful fief of a prince of Lusignan--into the hands of that parvenu of Naples, _Rizzo_! The King verily guessed not his quality when he named him to such estate! He would outrule monarchs.