Also, I say that this Inquisition which you have set up shall eat out the heart of Spain and bring her greatness to the dust of death.

The torture and the misery of those Jews, than whom you have no better or more faithful subjects, shall be avenged on the heads of your children's children for so long as their blood endures." He finished speaking, and, while something that sounded like a gasp of fear rose from that crowded court as the meaning of Castell's bold words came home to his auditors, the crowd behind him separated, and there appeared, walking two by two, a file of masked and hooded monks and a guard of soldiers, all of whom doubtless were in waiting.

They came to John Castell, they touched him on the shoulder, they closed around him, hiding him as it were from the world, and in the midst of them he vanished away.
Peter's memories of that strange day in the Alcazar at Seville always remained somewhat dim and blurred.

It was not wonderful.

Within the space of a few hours he had been tried for his life and acquitted.