"But even if you succeeded in gaining a complete victory, if every church in city and country again belonged to the only faith by which we can obtain salvation, I shall still see them deprived of their holy vocation, for they will stand empty, because then the men who would rather die than abjure their delusion will be lying silent upon battlefields." "May they rot there!" cried the Spaniard.

"But we are not fighting only for to-day and tomorrow.

New generations will again fill churches and chapels.

We will shed the last drops of our blood to accomplish it, and every true Castilian thinks as I do." "I know it," sighed the regent, "and it is not my business to preach to deaf ears.

But one thing more: Do you know that his Majesty has just accepted the Marquise de Leria's offer ?" "No; but I should be greatly indebted to your royal----" "Then listen," the Queen hastily interrupted.