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CIVIL AMBITION, AND ECCLESIASTICAL.
Scarcely had the prince vanished, before the door that led from the anteroom was opened, and an old man, in the ecclesiastical garb, entered the secretary's cabinet.
"Do I intrude, my son ?" said the churchman.
"No, father, no; I never more desired your presence--your counsel.

It is not often that I stand halting and irresolute between the two magnets of interest and conscience: this is one of those rare dilemmas." Here Calderon rapidly narrated the substance of his conversation with Fonseca, and of the subsequent communication with the prince.
"You see," he said, in conclusion, "how critical is my position.

On one side, my obligations to Fonseca, my promise to a benefactor, a friend to the boy I assisted to rear.

Nor is that all: the prince asks me to connive at the abstraction of a novice from a consecrated house.