[Fair Margaret by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookFair Margaret CHAPTER XVIII 17/18
This is the second time that I have come into trouble from the same cause.
Also, I thought that he was but a bandit." "Love is a bad diplomatist," replied Bernaldez, with a little smile, "and who can count last year's clouds? What is done, is done.
Now I will try to arrange that the three of you shall be brought straight before their Majesties when they sit to hear cases on the day after to-morrow. With the Queen you will have a better chance than at the hands of any alcalde.
She has a heart, if only one can get at it--that is, except where Jews and Maranos are concerned," and again he glanced at Castell. "Meanwhile, there is money in plenty, and in Spain we ride to heaven on gold angels," he added, alluding to that coin and the national corruption. Before they could say more the governor returned, saying that the Senor Bernaldez' time was up, and asking if they had finished their talk. "Not altogether," said Margaret.
"Noble Governor, is it permitted that the Senor Bernaldez should send me some Christian clothes to wear, for I would not appear before your judges in this soiled heathen garb, nor, I think, would my father or the Senor Brome ?" The governor laughed, and said he thought that might be arranged, and even allowed them another five minutes, while they talked of what these clothes should be.
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