The Spanish Cavalier: A Story of Seville. A. L. O. E.

which he rarely touched; but the two friends were together alone under the quiet moonlight, and there had been more of interchange of thought between them than there had ever been before.

      "It must have embittered your trial," Alcala had observed, "that your father had no time for preparation for death – no time to receive the last rites of his Church." Greatly had the Spaniard been struck by his companion's reply, "No; for my father had made his peace with God long before." Not a shadow of doubt had darkened the countenance of the Protestant as he uttered these words; Lepine had looked as fully assured of the happiness of his parent as if he had himself seen him carried by angels into the skies. Alcala could not utter the question which trembled on his lips, "Have you then no fear of the purgatorial pains which, as our priests tell us, are needed to purify even the good?" That question was answered, ere it was asked, by the peace – the more than peace – which shone in the eyes of Lucius.

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      Circus for bull fights.

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      Public burning of those convicted of heresy, or what the Church of Rome regarded as such.

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      It is said that in the year 1461, when the Inquisition was established in Seville, it sacrificed two thousand victims; and that from the same date to 1517, twelve thousand were burned

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Circus for bull fights.

2

Public burning of those convicted of heresy, or what the Church of Rome regarded as such.

3

It is said that in the year 1461, when the Inquisition was established in Seville, it sacrificed two thousand victims; and that from the same date to 1517, twelve thousand were burned alive.

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A garment, covered with representations of demons, worn by the condemned.

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A kind of soup, common in Spain

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The full costume of a picador.

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The picador is he who encounters the bull on horse-back. The matador meets him on foot, and gives the last stroke.

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Those who irritate the bull by sticking into him small darts with flags attached, called banderillas.

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An inn

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This is taken verbatim from a translation of the charge, given in "Daybreak In Spain," by the Rev. J. Wylie, D.D.

11

I have been informed, since writing the above, that there was an English chaplain; but we may suppose him to have been absent at this time.