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To Isabella's credit it is to be said, that she protested against the whole thing immediately; and so far as appears, no further shipments were made in exactly the same way. But these poor wretches were not sent back to the islands, as she perhaps thought they were. Fonseca did not hesitate to sell them, or apprentice them, to use our modern phrase, and it is said by Bernaldez that they all died.
Irving adopts the earlier of these two dates, upon the authority of a remark by Bernaldez, the curate of Los Palacios, which speaks of the death of Columbus in the year 1506, "at a good old age, being seventy years old, a little more or less." But this statement has an air of vagueness, and is, moreover, inconsistent with several passages in Columbus's own letters.
Then he departed with Bernaldez, leaving them alone.
Bernaldez, the historian of Ferdinand and Isabella, who knew him intimately in his later years, says "he was a man of very lofty genius, and of marvellously honored memory." With these personal characteristics, Columbus united a restless spirit, a firm will, and a singularly enthusiastic temperament.
One Bernaldez, whom we had both known in Cuba. He had, it appears, come over to Spain in ordinary dress; for he was too well known to travel as Bernaldez, the priest. He was a fine man so much I will say for him. The Englishwoman was, no doubt, beautiful. Bernaldez met her. She did not know that he was a priest." Antonio paused, shrugged his shoulders and spread out his arms.
Except Bernaldez, of course, for he's been safe in Paris these many years, and doing well there, they say." "Yes," answered Castell, with a little smile "that is, unless I had to go to Spain to find out." Just then the three children came running up, bursting through the gate all together.
The morning mist had descended the mountain side, the air was cold. There at the Puente, leaning against the wall, cloaked and quiet was Bernaldez. 'Ah! he said to me, 'you have come, too? 'Yes, Amigo, I answered, 'but I do not give the word for two friends to let go at each other. Your little clock can do that. He nodded and said nothing. Senorita, I was sorry for the man.
There were present there besides himself the Fray Henriques now a secretary to the Holy Inquisition, but disguised as a layman the woman Inez, the agent Bernaldez, and the old Jew, Israel of Granada. "I have brought him here, never mind how," Inez was saying, pointing to Henriques. "A risky and disagreeable business enough. And now what is the use of it?"
"Noble Governor, is it permitted that the Senor Bernaldez should send me some Christian clothes to wear, for I would not appear before your judges in this soiled heathen garb, nor, I think, would my father or the Senor Brome?" The governor laughed, and said he thought that might be arranged, and even allowed them another five minutes, while they talked of what these clothes should be.
"A thousand doubloons if the thing succeeds, and you live to claim them," croaked old Israel. "I do not go back upon my word. Death and shame and torture or a thousand doubloons. Now he knows our terms, blindfold him again, Senor Bernaldez, and away with him, for he poisons the air. But first you, Inez, be gone and lodge that letter where you know."
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