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El diplomático ilustre que había sostenido en Washington la causa de la justicia, la causa nacional, quiso pelear por ella como soldado, aspirando a sellar con su propia sangre sus palabras y sus escritos.
DON PEDRO. El de pedirme su mano. ¿No es ése? DON EDUARDO. Ése mismo; y si fuera yo tan dichoso que reuniera a los ojos de usted aquellas circunstancias.... DON PEDRO. Muchas reune usted, por vida mía, Sr. D. Eduardo: nacimiento ilustre, mayorazgo crecido, educación, talento, moralidad.... DON EDUARDO. Usted me confunde, Sr. D. Pedro.
The inscription on the inner side of the lid, without contractions, was: "Ilustre y Esclarecido Varon Don Cristobal Colon" "Illustrious and noble man, Christopher Columbus." The letters "C C A" were interpreted as signifying "Cristobal Colon, Almirante" "Christopher Columbus, Admiral."
In this humble posada, Cervantes, whose ancestral castle is on yonder bluff overlooking the Tago, wrote his "Ilustre Fregona." The family history of yonder fortress-palace inspired Zorilla's romantic pen, and a thousand and one other objects recall the past, the past that is Toledo's present and doubtless will have to be her future.
This place is famous in the ancient novels of Spain, of that class called Picaresque, or those devoted to the adventures of notorious scoundrels, the father of which, as also of all others of the same kind, in whatever language, is Lazarillo de Tormes. Cervantes himself has immortalized this strand in the most amusing of his smaller tales, La Ilustre Fregona.
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