"He has all the fire of the apostles; he will become a Saint Bernard or a Bossuet.

Who can tell how far this youth will go, or where he will end ?" One of the studies which most delighted Gabriel was that of the history of the Cathedral, and of the ecclesiastical princes who had ruled it.

All the inherent love of the Lunas for the giantess who was their eternal mother surged up in him, but he did not love it blindly as all his belongings did.

He wished to know the why and the wherefore of things, comparing in his books the vague old stories that he had heard from his father, that seemed more akin to legends than to historical facts.
The first thing that claimed his attention was the chronology of the archbishops of Toledo--a long line of famous men, saints, warriors, writers, princes, each with his number after his name, like the kings of the different dynasties.

At certain times they had been the real kings of Spain.