The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-22
led with a sigh: yet Count Amadeo

is a comely gentleman"
But then. to the great astonishment
of all. there came another voice from
the shrine: and although they had not
heard the voice of Saint Emilia and
could not tell how she would speak,
yet it did not seem to them that THIS
could be the voice or these the
words of the saint.
MY dear lord said the voice. you
ere my life and my love and my all.
For since L saw you in Mantivogna L
loved you. and more L loved you in
the robbers novel. and more than all
now. Yet / am not worthy of your
favor"
"Now. these be fine devotions."
said the Prince of Mantivoglia, and
his eyes ttwinkled, and he gave twist
to his moustache; and he opened his
mouth to speak again, when suddenly
Giacomo. wtho had been on the out
skirts of the throng, sprang forward,
crying in great apparent anger:
''Jacfnta. what do you there?"
His voice brought little fearful cry
from the shrine Then came Amadeo's
voice, saying:
Fear not for now neither ladies
nor robbers nor this painter can touch
you. for my arm is about you"
And. as he said this Amadeo came
forth from the chapel with his arm
about Jacinta's waist, and he beheld
with establishment the throng that
stood there. but the prince ran for
ward and caught him by the arm.
asking merTiiy:
Are these your devotions, Amadeo?
OF a truth I perceive why you would
not share them with u.s.
But Amadeo took Jacinta by the
hand and led her forward in a very
courtly manner, and, bowling low, said
to the prince:
''sar. with your leave I would make
this lady my wife. and if you desire
to know who she is, ask the Lady
Beatrice. of her higthness train"
Then the prince turned to Beatrice
and babe her speak and in sore fear
and terror she told all she knew of
Jacinta. save that she did not tell
how she and her fellows had beaten
her: and Amadeo told how Jacinta
had preserved him from peril in the
robbers howell and how he had con-
ceived that her face was of a saint
from heaven.
"Of truth 1 do not marvel at your
error said the prince, and he bent
and kissed Jacinta's hand and led her
to the princess. who received her very
graciously and said to her:
Ask whatever favor you will of me
and it is yours.
Jacinta looked round on Beatrice and
the other Of the princess ladies, and
said:
Madame, I pray you to forgive your
ladies the trick they played on my
Lord Amadeo in the chapel at Manti-
voglia, for from it has come to me joy
greater than any suffering I had at
their hands"
And when Beatrice and the rest
heard her tineV ran no her and ep,
braiced her, for they had been very sore
afraid what would befall them when
this truth became known to the prin-
cess.
And what of the shrine, Amadeo?'
asked the prince, laughing.
1T will be the richer, SIR the count
answered, ''by a Jewel more precious
than any I had before
And all alpplauded him, and they re-
turned to the banqueting hail, there to
spend the night in revel; and the next
day Amadeo was welded to Jacinta. in
the shrine that he had built to Saint
Emilia. For" said The, ''since a1ave
had this trouble to find her, I will take
good heed not to- lose her again.
Now this story was told by the prin-
cess of Mantivoglia sons wife to that
Prince Vittorio in whose time the thing
fell out, as she sat with her ladies in
the gardens after dinner that they
might know the history of the Shrine
of Saint Emilia at Castivano, and of
the famous picture of Giaicomo's that
hangs there to this day. And if there
be anything else that may be learned
from the story, it would seem to be
that, SO a face be pretty enough, it
hath the same power, whencesoever it
may come and whether it belong to a
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