Battista

Note 134: In Piero's dyptich of the Duke and Duchess Montefeltro, Battista is shown wearing a pearl necklace. back

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That done he went off to bed, and soon after the lights were extinguished in Condillac; and save for Arsenio, who was, on guard, sorely perturbed by all that had befallen and marvelling at the rashness of his friend "Battista" -- for he had no full particulars of the business -- the place was wrapped in sleep.

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Battista d 'Agnolo, who was afterwards called Battista del Moro.

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He did not add that it was the implicit confidence they reposed in "Battista" himself that had overcome their reluctance to leave the key with the sentry.

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But it was no longer the travestied Garnache that Condillac had known as "Battista" during the past days, it was that gentleman as he had been when first he presented himself at the chateau.

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The servants who brought the meals from the kitchen delivered them to "Battista" in the guardroom, and he it was who laid the cloth and waited upon mademoiselle.

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On that fateful Wednesday "Battista" sought out -- as had now become his invariable custom -- his compatriot as soon as the time of his noontide rest was come, the hour at which they dined at Condillac.

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Marius looked back at "Battista," and from him to Valerie.

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Wondering, he fell into step beside her, and they paced together the yew-bordered terrace, the ever-vigilant but discreet "Battista" following them, though keeping now a few paces farther in the rear.

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The horseman had halted within a few paces of the spot where "Battista" and his companion stood, and seeing in the vilely clad Garnache a member of the Condillac household, he flung him his reins, then got down stiffly from his horse.

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