22/27 I am come too low, Madonna." "That Lazzaro, after whom you are named," she answered, "had come yet lower. But he lived again, and resumed his former station. Take your courage from that." "He lived not at the mercy of Giovanni of Pesaro," said I. Then--"At least," she urged me, "you'll come to Pesaro with me ?" "Why yes," said I."I could not let you go alone." And in my heart I felt a pang of shame, and called myself a cur for making use of her as I was doing to reach the Court of Giovanni Sforza. "I can be surety for that at least." In the east a brighter, yellower light than the moon's began to show. |