She dismounted, leaving the reins with a groom, and entering the common-room she proclaimed her needs to those that occupied it by loudly calling upon the landlord to find her an escort of three or four knaves to accompany her at once to Pesaro, where they should be well rewarded by the Lord Giovanni, her cousin.
I had followed her in, and I ground my teeth at such an egregious piece of folly.

Her hood was thrown back, displaying the lenza of fine linen on her sable hair, and over this a net of purest gold all set with jewels.

Her camorra, too, was open, and in her girdle there were gems for all to see.

There were but a half-dozen men in the room.

Two of these had a venerable air--they may have been traders journeying to Milan--whilst a third, who sat apart, was a slender, effeminate-looking youth.