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smiling afresh , and bowing very graciously , said , — " With your Highness e s permission , I have come to kiss your hands , and learn your health , if not to see the show . " "Truly , Signormio , "
said the Duke , " few heads so old as yours would have leisure or content enough to take pleasure in these levities ; but you have kept a young heart ,
preserving it in the sweetness of your dispositions . " Whereat the old gentleman bowed and laughed , like one who would not bandy words , knowing they would but run in the same
course ; and so the Grand Duke walked back to his station , keeping the old gentleman very dose by him , like a brother , or a very dear friend . And now I had more leisure
to observe the two men that were with him . One of them was a brave looking young man , very decent in his comportment , like the lackey of a gentleman of respect . But ; le other was very notable
iimong servants . He ware a nerving man ' s dress , and had aken the rein of the old genleman ' s horse , snatching it , as [ C thought , with a rude kind of [ greediness . He was a very uoble looking man , that might nave graced any title or station .
: 3 is stature was tall and comely , ut meagre withal ; his hair a fizzled black ; his face very sale , anxious , and melancholic , tad his eye large , black , sari * skinned , and deepl y set md ^ r his brow ; his action was Liajestical as any prince , and » rode as if he were born to
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command rather than to serve : whilst I was observing him , the Duke beckoned a gentleman and whispering him , sent him to this lackey of Signor
Alberto , as the old gentleman was called . I saw the gentleman go up to him ; but certainly I thought that my eyes were distraught , when they made me
see that the gentleman , pulling off his hat with respective gravity , bowed very low , and said something to the tall lackey ; at which he turned to his
fellow , and seemed very humbly to ask him to take the beasts in charge : for presently dismounting , he accompanied the gentleman to the Duke . When he had knelt , and kissed
his Highness ' s hand , the Duke raised him up , and embraced , and then spake with him in a very courteous guise ; but I was not near enough to hear the matter of their discourse .
When the Duke had done , he stepped behind , and several gentlemen accosted him , some with an embrace , some with a grappling of hand , and some only bowing very humbly , and
he all the while making suitable returns , like a great lord . All these admirable sights did perfectly amaze me , making my eyes seem ready to crack for
straining to stare at them , so unmannerly was I made by the astonishment . Now presently the review began , and it was mi g hty fine . * * * When it was over , I heard
one say that the Duke was going to Signor Alberto ' , at which many smiled * And one
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110 A Gentleman ' s Remorse .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/38/
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