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Updated: June 22, 2025
The duke forbade her thenceforth ever to speak of politics to her husband in public or in private not even in bed and the king was closely questioned whether these orders had been obeyed. She submitted without a struggle. She saw how completely her happiness was at Lerma's mercy.
The sixty-three bishops perhaps averaged fifty thousand a year each, and there were eight more in Italy. The commanderies of chivalry, two hundred at least in number, were likewise enormously profitable. Some of them were worth thirty thousand a year; the aggregate annual value being from one-and-a-half to two millions, and all in Lerma's gift, upon his own terms.
Ambassadors wrote to their sovereigns that there was no hope of making treaties or of accomplishing any negotiation except by purchasing the favour of the autocrat; and Lerma's price was always high.
CARLOS passes from torpid silence to violent agitation. That which I feared befell. Unreal dangers Alarmed your mind. The bleeding queen the tumult Within the palace Lerma's interference And, last of all, my own mysterious silence, Conspired to overwhelm thy heart with wonder.
That's little Wreckham's wife: she's had as many adventures as Gil Blas before he entered the Duke of Lerma's service. He reviewed several ladies, certainly not very witty when malignant, as I remembered my father to have said of him. 'The style of your Englishwoman is to keep the nose exactly at one elevation, to show you're born to it. They daren't run a gamut, these women.
Ambassadors wrote to their sovereigns that there was no hope of making treaties or of accomplishing any negotiation except by purchasing the favour of the autocrat; and Lerma's price was always high.
If any one of the men who combined to work his ruin is mentioned in history, it is only to say, "He lived in the age of Rembrandt." I was admitted to the Duke of Lerma's presence, and took part in the embassy. They are held and accepted by the King and Queen as originals, without there being any doubt on their side, or assertion on ours, to make them believe them to be such.
It was in this very hour that the door of Lerma's chamber opened, and Roderigo Calderon stood before him. But how changed how blasted from his former self! His eyes were sunk deep in their sockets, and their fire was quenched; his cheeks were hollow, his frame bent, and when he spoke his voice was as that of one calling from the tomb. "Behold me, Duke de Lerma, I am returned at last!"
The duke forbade her thenceforth ever to speak of politics to her husband in public or in private not even in bed and the king was closely questioned whether these orders had been obeyed. She submitted without a struggle. She saw how completely her happiness was at Lerma's mercy.
The duke forbade her thenceforth ever to speak of politics to her husband in public or in private not even in bed and the king was closely questioned whether these orders had been obeyed. She submitted without a struggle. She saw how completely her happiness was at Lerma's mercy.
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