It is the grace of God.

Did you not know ?" "We know nothing but what Fray Ignatius tells us--that the Americans have been everywhere pulling down churches, and granting martyrdom to the priests, and that everywhere miraculous retributions have pursued them." "Was Gonzales a retribution?
The Senor Doctor came to us while we were there.

God be blessed; but he startled us like the rattle of rifle-shots in the midnight! 'Why were you not at Goliad ?' he cried.

'There were three hundred stand of arms there, and cannon, and plenty of provisions.
Why were they not yours ?' You would have thought, Senora, he had been a soldier all his life.

The men caught fire when he came near them, and we went to Goliad like eagles flying for their prey.