Identifier: oldcourtlifespai02elli (find matches)
Title: Old court life in Spain
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Elliot, Frances, 1820-1898
Subjects: Spain -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York, London : G. P. Putnams's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ay judge of hisappearance. This command was promptly obeyed, and ayouth stood forward on the edge of the dais,habited in a long dark mantle of coarse cloth,sandals on his bare feet, and a mass of thick fairhair combed down so straight under a pointed capit was almost impossible to distinguish his fea-tures. Not that he appeared the least dismayed,but stood perfectly at his ease in front of the radi-ance of the scented lamps, his zither in his hand,minutely surveying the faces of those before him. Your looks proclaim you young, said thearchbishop, struck for a moment with a fanciedresemblance to some one he had seen. Where doyou come from? By our Lady of Saragossa, youhave a pleasant voice. Grandeza, answered the minstrel, I aman orphan, of good birth, reduced to the greatestwant. To-day, upon my word, I have not eaten ameal. Poor boy! here you shall have your fill. Howlong have you been so reduced? Since my fathers death, your Grace. Hedied when I was a child, and the wicked governors
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. ENRIQUE EL ENFERMO 223 he placed over me have despoiled me of my inheri-tance. You see me, mighty senors, reduced to singfor food. A right good youth, and worthy of largess,observed Don Pedro de Mendoza, ill-famed asthe most ruthless squanderer of the royal treasure.(If Don Pedro could have scanned the expressionof the face before him, he might have seen sucha smile of scorn gathering about the thin lips aswould have startled him.) The saints bless you! was the reply, anddeal with you as you do to others. As for me,with a deep sigh, I am not only starving, butat this present time I know that my sinfulguardians are carousing at my expense. The Virgin protect us! exclaimed the arch-bishop. Did ever man hear of such infamy! If the youth speaks truth, returned Villena,not to be behindhand in the expression of sym-pathy, the matter should be submitted to thekings judges, and right done in ample restitution. Otherwise it were a disgrace to the governmentof the Regents,

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