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

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MILITARY ORDERS
“But we
are in the
calm and
proud
procession
of eternal
things ”
Portrait
very dear.” The Bachellor Cibdareal
states that in these hours the King was
very restless and wretched, and twice he
called a servant and gave him a paper to
carry, and twice he checked him again and
said, “Let be, let be!” So he flung him-
self at last upon his bed and lay there
awhile and no one told him it was ended
till after dinner.
This was the death of the best knight
there was in his time in all the Spains and
the best lord uncrowned, the good Master
of Santiago.
♦
His personal charm, and what we call
distinction, was the rarest of his gifts, as
perhaps it was the most potent: one recalls
the pains at which are the speakers in the
Book of the Courtier to define that last
flower and fragrance of the perfect gentle-
man by a word usually translated grace,
“a certain virtue or perfection above other
men.”
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