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Calderon The Courtier

CHAPTER VII
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"My release--you have brought my release--let us forth!" "My dear pupil, be ruled, be calm.

I have seen the duke: the cause of your imprisonment is as I suspected.

Some imprudent words, overheard, perhaps, but by your valet, have escaped you; words intimating your resolution not to abandon Beatriz.

You know your kinsman, a mail of doubts and fears,--of forms, ceremonies, and scruples.

From very affection for his kindred and yourself he has contrived your arrest; all my expostulations have been in vain.


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