Old Court Life in Spain; vol. 2
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Elliot Frances Minto Dickinson. Old Court Life in Spain; vol. 2
CHAPTER I. Fiesta of the Corpus Domini
CHAPTER II. Don Pedro – Maria de Padilla – Albuquerque
CHAPTER III. Blanche de Bourbon
CHAPTER IV. Don Fadique’s Declaration of Love
CHAPTER V. Marriage at Valladolid
CHAPTER VI. Cloister, Valladolid. – Castle of Talavera
CHAPTER VII. Don Pedro and Maria de Padilla
CHAPTER VIII. Don Fadique Goes to Seville
CHAPTER IX. Murder of Don Fadique
CHAPTER X. Don Pedro – Alcazar – The Queen-Mother – Maria de Padilla
CHAPTER XI. A New King – Enrique de Trastamare
CHAPTER XII. Don Enrique and Albuquerque in Council
CHAPTER XIII. Queen Blanche in Sanctuary
CHAPTER XIV. Don Enrique Welcomes Queen Blanche to Toledo
CHAPTER XV. Taking of Toledo by Don Pedro – Death of Queen Blanche
CHAPTER XVI. Death of Maria de Padilla – Don Juan de Mañara
CHAPTER XVII. Don Enrique again Crowned King – Flight of Don Pedro
CHAPTER XVIII. Don Pedro Appeals to Edward the Black Prince to Replace Him on the Throne
CHAPTER XIX. The Black Prince Defeats Don Enrique and Reinstates Don Pedro. – Don Enrique Murders Don Pedro. – Death of Don Enrique
CHAPTER XX. Juan I. – Enrique el Enfermo
CHAPTER XXI. Juan II. and Doña Isabel of Portugal – Execution of the Conde de Luna
CHAPTER XXII. Enrique IV. el Impotente
CHAPTER XXIII. Ferdinand and Isabel
CHAPTER XXIV. Los Reyes Catolicos
CHAPTER XXV. The Siege of Granada
CHAPTER XXVI. The End of the Moors
CHAPTER XXVII. Death of Isabel
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IN the upper story of the Alcazar is Don Pedro’s retiring room, overlooking the central Patio de las Doncellas below, the soft echo of ever-bubbling fountains and runnels mingling with the songs of birds hidden among the luxuriant foliage of palms and fragrant plants.
But little in keeping with the harmony without is the carved door by which the apartment is entered, still hung with the heads of four unjust judges placed there by the king as a warning to evil-doers. It is a small and secluded room, cut off from the state apartments of the upper story, appropriated to the use of Doña Maria del Padilla, panelled with cedar, broken by coats of arms in red, blue, and gold shields, portraits of kings of Castile and Moorish caliphs, emblems and badges, gilt “castles” and rampant “lions”; the ceiling rich in carved rafters, dividing into deep compartments, ornamented with bosses and lozenges in the same bright hues, by which the effect of the dark wood is greatly heightened; sconces for candles and circles for torches also on the walls, showing that it is the habit of the king to use the room by night as well as day. Little sun enters, and what does penetrate comes from lofty casements darkened by panes of painted glass, reflecting in turn on the deeply tinted azulejo tiles of the floor, always so noticeable a detail in Moorish chambers.
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After all, the discussion of the marriage might be called (seeing his relationship to Maria de Padilla) almost a personal question, and that he had been and was acting magnanimously in the matter he felt to his heart’s core. The ill-concealed contempt of the king wounded and offended him as it had never done before. He reddened under the mocking glance of Don Pedro, his eyes half in jest, half in anger, fixed on him as if reading the embarrassment of his thoughts.
At length, with a silent dignity no ridicule could reach, he slowly gathered up his papers, and bowing low craved leave to depart. “God preserve your Highness,” were his words. “You need not to be told I hold your commands absolute, but, sire, as your servant, I once more crave you to remember the prophecy of which I spoke – ‘To be stabbed and succeeded by his brother.’ The Gitano died for these traitorous words against your Grace, but still dying he persisted in repeating them.”
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