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Updated: June 29, 2025
Don Pedro de Toledo's mission in regard to the Spanish marriages had failed because Henry had spurned the condition which was unequivocally attached to them on the part of Spain, the king's renunciation of his alliance with the Dutch Republic, which then seemed an equivalent to its ruin.
"Toledo, he hadn't had a drink for a week, and he was naturally feelin' kind of ugly. 'All right, he growls at the preacher guy. 'All right. I pass. "'Ah, my brother! says the hoss-faced guy. 'I see the spirits is at work. That kind of got Toledo's goat. "'Your dope is bum, says Toledo. 'I ain't had a drink for a week.
The Alcázar, which overlooks the rushing Tago, is a symbol of Toledo's past. It was successively burnt and rebuilt; its four façades, here stern and forbidding, there grotesque and worthless, differ from each other as much as the centuries in which they were built.
"Well," replied Toledo, "she's just a hundred an' thirty pound nugget, an' no mistake hey, fellers?" "You bet," promptly responded the remainder of the committee. "Good!" said the judge. "What does she want?" Toledo's countenance fell. "By thunder!" he replied, "we got out 'fore she had a chance to tell us!"
O road of high adventure, That leadest many a band To yon ungrateful country where My native turrets stand, The country that my valor Did oft with glory crown, The land that lets me languish here, Who won for her renown. Thou who hast succored many a knight, Hast thou no help for me, Who languish on Toledo's height In captive misery?
This castle was used by them as one of Toledo's northern defences against the warlike Christian kings. In the twelfth century the fortress fell into the hands of the Christians; in the succeeding centuries it was strongly rebuilt by the cardinal-archbishops of Toledo, who used it both as their palace and as their stronghold.
Don Pedro de Toledo's mission in regard to the Spanish marriages had failed because Henry had spurned the condition which was unequivocally attached to them on the part of Spain, the king's renunciation of his alliance with the Dutch Republic, which then seemed an equivalent to its ruin.
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