[The Shame of Motley by Raphael Sabatini]@TWC D-Link bookThe Shame of Motley CHAPTER III 22/25
For the rest, they did my bidding there and then. Having satisfied myself that no betraying sign remained about them, I drew the curtains of my litter, and reclining there I gave myself up to pondering the manner in which I should greet the Borgia sbirri when they overtook me.
From that I passed on to the contemplation of the position in which I found myself, and the thing that I had done.
And the proportions of the jest that I was perpetrating afforded me no little amusement.
It was a burla not unworthy the peerless gifts of Boccadoro, and a fitting one on which to close his wild career of folly.
For had I not vowed that Boccadoro I would be no more once the errand on which I travelled was accomplished? By Cesare Borgia's grace I looked to-- A sudden jolt brought me back to the immediate present, and the realisation that in the last few moments we had increased our pace.
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