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But the King took him by the hand and said, Friend and vassal, take no thought for this; I say unto you, that if I may have Zamora, I will make you chief therein, even as Arias Gonzalo is now. Then Vellido kissed his hand and said, God grant you life, Sir, for many and happy years, and let you fulfil what you desire. But the traitor had other thoughts in his heart.
And from that day che King gave more power into his hands, and made him head over all his household. Now the men of Leon besought the King that he should repeople Zamora, which had lain desolate since it was destroyed by Almanzor. And he went thither and peopled the city, and gave to it good privileges.
There are some noble pages in the work, but as a whole it is distressingly dull, and 'Le Tribut de Zamora' was also an emphatic failure. Gounod's later works, as has already been pointed out, show a distinct falling off from the standard attained in 'Faust, as regards form as well as in ideas. As he grew older he showed a stronger inclination to return to obsolete models.
"'So long, says I, 'as it ain't Gabriel, why talk as if you had heard a trump blow? "'It's the Señorita Anabela Zamora, says Fergus. 'She's she's she's as lovely as as hell! "'Bravo! says I, laughing heartily. 'You have a true lover's eloquence to paint the beauties of your inamorata.
Then Don Diego Ordonez arose, the son of Count Don Ordono, a man of royal lineage and great hardihood; and he said unto them, If ye will all assent to this which ye have heard, I will impeach the men of Zamora, for the death of the King our Lord: and they all assented, promising to fulfil what had been said.
The façade, repaired and spoilt, is of Renaissance severity. The interior of the building is more impressive than that of either Zamora or Toro; this is due to the absence of the choir, removed to the new cathedral, which permits an uninterrupted view of the whole church, which does not occur in any other temple throughout Spain.
Macwitty was to occupy the road between Zamora and Valladolid, while the main body held the roads between both the latter town, and Zamora, to Salamanca. Frequent communication was to be kept up between them, so that either column might speedily be reinforced, if necessary. In the course of a week, the whole country was in a state of alarm.
And the day in which they left Burgos they took up their lodging at Fromesta; and the next day they came to Canion, but the King would not lodge there, and he went on to Sahagun, where the army awaited him, and took up his lodging without the town; and on the following morning he bade the host advance, and they made such speed that in three days they arrived before Zamora, and pitched their tents upon the banks of the Douro; and he ordered proclamation to be made throughout the host that no harm should be done until he had commanded it.
Later, when the see was reëstablished in Zamora, the latter's twin sister, Toro, was definitely included in the new episcopal diocese. Built either toward the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, Santa Maria la Mayor, popularly called la catedral, closely resembles the cathedral church at Zamora.
"To do so he would naturally collect all his available forces from Salamanca, Zamora, and Valladolid, and would probably obtain reinforcements from Madrid and Estremadura; and I want to ascertain, as far as possible, the best means of checking the advance of some of these troops, by the blowing up of bridges, or the throwing forward of such a force as your regiment to seize any defile, or other point, that could be held for a day or two, and an enemy's column thus delayed.
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