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Updated: May 6, 2025
A noble train of ladies and cavaliers followed, together with pages and esquires, and a numerous guard of hidalgos of high rank arrayed in superb armor. When the veteran Mohammed beheld the queen thus arriving in state to take up her residence in the camp, he shook his head mournfully, and, turning to his captains, "Cavaliers," said he, "the fate of Baza is decided."
I tell you what you do, stand up and try this: just toe in a little when you walk that'll bring the points apart. There that's it; that's fine." The cameras were again recording so that Baird could later make his study of the difficulties to be mastered by the wearer of genuine hidalgos.
Presently he said "Where've you been to-night, Becodar?" "I have paid my respects to the Maison Dore, to the Cafe de la Concordia, to the Cafe Iturbide, senor." "And how did paying your respects pay you, Becodar?" "The noble courtesy of these cafes, and the great consideration of the hidalgos there assembled rendered to me five pesos and a trifle, senor." "The poor ye have always with you.
The ships were the Esperanza, the San Sebastian and the San Martin, the first fairly large and well decked, the others small. They who looked overside and shouted welcome seemed a medley of gentle and simple, mariners, husbandmen, fighting men and hidalgos. The Admiral! His hair was milk-white, his tall, broad frame gaunt as a January wolf.
When they had passed the forts they entered the river, the whole line of whose banks were covered with the country seats of the nobility and hidalgos splendid buildings embosomed in groves of orange trees, whose perfume scented the air. "There, signora, is the country palace of the Viceroy," said the captain, pointing to a building which covered nearly three acres of ground.
Her plan was to seek her father, throw herself at his feet, and beg him not to disgrace the blood of the hidalgos nor to destroy his own soul with a hideous crime. "I must seek him in private. There must be no others near when I make my appeal!" thought the girl. Just then a servant entered.
And he mounted on horseback with his hidalgos and rode round the town, and beheld how strongly it was situated upon a rock, with strong walls, and many and strong towers, and the river Douro running at the foot thereof; and he said unto his knights, Ye see how strong it is, neither Moor nor Christian can prevail against it; if I could have it from my sister either for money or exchange, I should be Lord of Spain.
"Well then," said he, "first of all, I have to tell you that the common people consider your worship a mighty great madman, and me no less a fool. The hidalgos say that, not keeping within the bounds of your quality of gentleman, you have assumed the 'Don, and made a knight of yourself at a jump, with four vine-stocks and a couple of acres of land, and never a shirt to your back.
The following night a thousand cavaliers and hidalgos kept guard about the royal tent, as they had done for several preceding nights; nor did the king relax this vigilance until he received certain intelligence that the enemy was completely scattered and El Zagal flying in confusion.
And the knights and hidalgos took counsel together how they might remedy these evils, and they agreed that the King should in the name of them all be advised how ill he was served, and intreated to put away his favourite.
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