"I approve your choice; and you may rely on me to destroy Calderon with the prince.

I have found out the way to rule Philip; it is by never giving him a right to despise his favourites--it is to flatter his vanity, but not to share his vices.
Trust me, you alone--if you follow my suggestions--can be minister to the Fourth Philip." Here a page entered to announce Don Fray Louis de Aliaga.

Uzeda advanced to the door, and received the holy man with profound respect.
"Be seated, father, and let me at once to business; for time presses, and all must be despatched to-night.

Before interest is made by others with the king, we must be prompt in gaining the appointment of Sandoval's successor." "Report says that the cardinal-duke, your father, himself desires the vacant chair of the Inquisition." "My poor father, he is old--his sun has set.

No, Aliaga; I have thought of one fitter for that high and stern office in a word, that appointment rests with yourself.