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Calderon The Courtier

CHAPTER V
10/11

I fear not exile; I fear not reverse; I no longer fear poverty itself.

All lands, where the sound of the trumpet is not unknown, can afford career to the soldier, who asks from Heaven no other boon but his mistress and his sword." "You will seek to abstract Beatriz, then ?" said Calderon, calmly and musingly.

"Yes--it may be your best course, if you take the requisite precautions.

But can you see her?
can you concert with her ?" "I think so.

I trust I have already paved the way to an interview.
Yesterday, after I quitted thee, I sought the convent; and, as the chapel is one of the public sights of the city, I made my curiosity my excuse.


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