"The invincible oppressor bears the name of unexpected circumstances; I encountered one of his harbingers to-day.

There lie the documents.

Do you know to what those miserable papers force me, the Emperor ?--ay, force, I repeat it.

To nothing less, Mary, than consciously to deal a blow in the face of justice, whose defender I ought and desire to be.

I am not exaggerating, for I am withdrawing a fratricide from the courts, nay, am paving the way for him to evade punishment." "You mean Alfonso Diaz, who had his brother murdered by a hired assassin because he abandoned the holy Church and accepted the Lutheran religion," said the Queen sorrowfully.