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One night when he arrived at the little town of Campillo, he heard of a barbarous massacre that had that day been perpetrated in a neighboring village upon a small detachment of English soldiers, who had just been discharged from the hospital at Cuenca, and were proceeding under the command of an officer to join Wyndham's battalion of the guards, to which they belonged.
And, if you didn't believe it, there the city was, still planted firmly on its feet and quite unscathed, except for a scratch here and there from times when the rains were exceptionally heavy and the waters came down from Cuenca in a great roaring torrent!
CELIBACY AND MORALS.—Illicit relations formed by the clergy—Shameless avowal of their fruits—Ferocious character of love in the cloisters—Three flagrant cases—Murder of a young lady by her confessor, the Carmelite of San Lucar—His trial and sentence—Murder by a wife of her husband under the direction of her confessor, the Capuchine of Cuenca—His trial, imprisonment, and escape—Murder of a lady by the Agonizante of Madrid—His trial and execution—Scandalous occurrences in the Convent of the Basilios of Madrid—Forcible entry of the civil power—Murder of the abbot—Suppression of inquiry—Shameful profligacy of the Capuchines of Cascante and the nuns of a neighbouring convent—Mode of its discovery—Imprisonment of inmates of both convents—Removal of prisoners—Their mysterious escape—Exemplary performance of vows in some cases—Dangers of celibacy—Spanish women and their influence on society.
'They make as good bread here as in France, and 'by night all cats are grey, and 'a hard case enough his, who hasn't broken his fast at two in the afternoon, and 'there's no stomach a hand's breadth bigger than another, and the same can be filled 'with straw or hay, as the saying is, and 'the little birds of the field have God for their purveyor and caterer, and 'four yards of Cuenca frieze keep one warmer than four of Segovia broad-cloth, and 'when we quit this world and are put underground the prince travels by as narrow a path as the journeyman, and 'the Pope's body does not take up more feet of earth than the sacristan's, for all that the one is higher than the other; for when we go to our graves we all pack ourselves up and make ourselves small, or rather they pack us up and make us small in spite of us, and then good night to us.
The patron saint of Cuenca is San Julian, one of the cathedral's first bishops, who led a saintly life, giving all he had and taking nothing that was not his, and who retired from his see to live the humble life of a basket-maker, seated with willow branches beneath the arches of the high bridge, and preaching saintly words to teamsters and mule-drivers as they approached the city, until his death in 1207.
'They make as good bread here as in France, and 'by night all cats are grey, and 'a hard case enough his, who hasn't broken his fast at two in the afternoon, and 'there's no stomach a hand's breadth bigger than another, and the same can be filled 'with straw or hay, as the saying is, and 'the little birds of the field have God for their purveyor and caterer, and 'four yards of Cuenca frieze keep one warmer than four of Segovia broad-cloth, and 'when we quit this world and are put underground the prince travels by as narrow a path as the journeyman, and 'the Pope's body does not take up more feet of earth than the sacristan's, for all that the one is higher than the other; for when we go to our graves we all pack ourselves up and make ourselves small, or rather they pack us up and make us small in spite of us, and then good night to us.
The latter is broken by the Rio Pastaza. The bottom of the longitudinal basin that bounds those two chains, from Alausi to Llactacunga, is somewhat higher than the bottom of the basin of Cuenca. The Alto de Chisinche is only 80 toises above the surrounding table-lands.
Tarma was next abandoned, and followed the same example, as did Huanuco, Cueñca, and Loxa; whilst, on the news of the capture of the Esmeralda arriving at Truxillo, that important province also revolted, under the direction of the Spanish governor, the Marquis of Torre Tagle.
The assault of Cuenca, the sole victory of the campaign, made a deep impression on Gabriel's memory; the troops of men wearing the scarf, after they had knocked down the ramparts as weak as mud walls, rushed like overflowing streams through the streets.
As to Thompson, there wasn't any reason why suspicion should fall upon him. Soon after I got back to my regiment I got ill again and was left in a hospital at Cuenca, and had a narrow escape of it this morning." "It was a risky business," Jack said, "and it would have gone very hard with you and Thompson if you had been found out." "So it would, sir.
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