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Calderon The Courtier

CHAPTER IV
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I led thee to safety far away; I won thy friendship and thy confidence.

Thou becamest one of us--one of the great Order of Jesus.
Subsequently, I placed thee as the tutor to young Fonseca, then heir to great fortunes.

The second marriage of his uncle, and the heir that by that marriage interposed between him and the honour of his house, rendered the probable alliance of the youth profitless to us.

But thou hadst procured his friendship.

He presented thee to the Duke of Lerma.
I was just then appointed confessor to the king; I found that years had ripened thy genius, and memory had blunted in thee all the affections of the flesh.


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