The most favourable would not be too good, the reverse scarcely too severe.

To reconcile such contrasts is beyond my power.

She is certainly something unusual, that will fit no mould with which I am familiar." "If you had a son," asked Don Luis, "would you receive her gladly as a daughter-in-law ?" A gesture of denial from the valet gave eloquent expression of his opinion; but Quijada went on in a tone of anxious inquiry: "Then what will she whom he loves be to the master whose happiness and peace are as dear to you as to me ?" Adrian started, and answered firmly: "For him, it seems to me, she will perhaps be the right one, for what power could she assert against his?
And, besides, there is something in his Majesty, as well as in this girl, which distinguishes them from other mortals.

What do I mean by that?
I see and hear it, but I can neither exactly understand nor name it." "That might be difficult even for a more adroit speaker," replied Quijada; "but I think I know to what you allude.

You and I, Master Adrian, have hearts in our breasts, like thousands of other people, and in our heads what is termed common sense.