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Updated: May 4, 2025
"I am sure," she exclaimed, "that he is a more fervent and pious Christian New-Christian though he be than his accuser." The wistfulness faded from Torquemada's eyes. They grew keen, as became the eyes of an inquisitor, the eyes of a sleuth, quick to fasten on a spoor. But he shook his head. Ojeda advanced. "That I cannot believe," said he.
It even disquieted the well-favoured young Don Rodrigo de Cardona, who in all his vain, empty, pampered and rather vicious life had never yet known perturbation. Not that he was a New-Christian. He was of a lineage that went back to the Visigoths, of purest red Castilian blood, untainted by any strain of that dark-hued, unclean fluid alleged to flow in Hebrew veins.
The Morisco had a cousin a New-Christian like himself, and like himself, it would appear, still a Muslim at heart who was employed in the Spanish treasury at Malaga. This man had knowledge that a galley was fitting out for sea to convey to Naples the gold destined for the pay of the Spanish troops in garrison there.
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