The fault is not yours, your vocation has come too late, when fate has rendered Spain powerless for adventurous undertakings.

If she revives she will have to follow a direction which will certainly not be that of the sword.

For this reason I say that these youths stray from the right path when they seek for glory where their ancestors thought to find it." The appearance of Silver Stick cut short the dialogue.

He ran in, pale with excitement, gasping, rattling his bunch of keys.
"His Eminence is coming," he said, hurriedly.

"He is already under the arch; he wishes to spend the evening in the garden; it is a whim! They say he is quite unmanageable to-day." And he ran on to open the staircase del Tenorio, which put the Claverias in communication with the lower cloister.
The cadet was alarmed at the unexpected proximity of his uncle.