King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

IN SPAIN
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by searching through his linen and silver
and other property there: and came back
to “the stronghold of Alcantara which is
called the Convent,” and faced the Master
and asked some awkward questions: not
a bad sort, Doctor Franco, in his long gown,
with his scholarly pallor gone a little green
in the cheeks and about the lips! Had the
Master, perhaps (being notoriously sud-
den), changed his mind about the pledge
not to admit the Infants to the city? Had
he indeed sent for the Infants who were
now in the suburb?
Truly, yes, replied the Master: more-
over, his mind was changed about those
pledges and compacts, and he would have
the papers back again, please. Then said
the Doctor “Impossible, for I have sent
them to the King already.” So the Master,
leaving him under strong guard, went down
to his lodgings and searched, but in vain;
he cared more for the papers than the stuff,
but being annoyed and desiring especially
not only some pretty extensive pardons for
the past, for him and his, that the King
had signed, but also some other blank
Up and
down
Alcantara
town
AND MONOGRAPHS