But Guidobaldo scoffed at his qualms"Do you account my niece a peasant girl?" he asked. "Would you have her smirk and squirm at every piece of flattery you utter? So that she weds Your Highness what shall the rest signify?""I would that she loved me a little," complained Gian Maria foolishly.Guidobaldo looked him over with an eye that smiled inscrutably, and it may have crossed his mind that this coarse white-faced Duke was too ambitious.
-Rafael Sabatini
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