But how is this, love ?" he added, after speaking of his intended measures at some length, and perceiving that they failed to elicit Isabella's interest as usual.

"Thy thoughts are not with me this evening." "With thee, my husband, but not with the Moors," replied the Queen, faintly smiling.

"I confess to a pre-occupied mind; but just now my heart is so filled with sorrowing sympathy, that I can think but of individuals, not of nations.

In the last council, in which the question of this Moorish war was agitated, our faithful Morales was the most eloquent.

His impassioned oratory so haunted me, as your Grace spoke, that I can scarcely now believe it hushed for ever, save for the too painful witness of its truth." "His lovely wife thou meanest, Isabel?
Poor girl! How fares she ?" "As she has been since that long faint, which even I believed was death; pale, tearless, silent.