The Spaniards who are the bravest men in the world, have been defeated, there is not a peseta anywhere, and all those gentlemen who harangue in Madrid vote fresh taxes and we are always involved in difficulties.

When was this ever seen in former times?
When ?" "Worse and more shameful things were seen," said Luna.
"You are mad, youngster! Those travels have corrupted you, till I believe you are hardly a Spaniard! Look you, that he denies what everybody knows, what is taught in all the schools! And the Catholic kings; were they nothing?
You need no books to know that.

Go into the choir, and you will see on the lower stalls all the battles that those religious kings gained over the Moors with the help of God.

They conquered Granada and drove out the infidels who had held it seven centuries in barbarism.

Afterwards came the discovery of America.