He did not wish to meet him there, he feared the cardinal's temper, and fled towards the tower staircase on his way to the bull-fight, sacrificing his sweetheart sooner than meet with Don Sebastian.
Gabriel, who now found himself alone in the cloister, leant against a column and watched the progress of this terrible prince of the Church.
He saw him come out of the doorway leading to the abode of the giants, followed by two servants.

Luna was able to examine him well for the first time.

He was enormous; but in spite of his age carried himself erectly; over his black cassock with the red borders hung his gold cross.

He was leaning with a martial air on a staff of command, and the gold tassels of his hat fell on the pink skin of his fat neck, which was fringed with white hair.

His small and penetrating eyes looked on all sides in the hopes of discovering some delinquency, something contravening the established rules, which would enable him to break out into shouts and menaces and so give vent to his ill humour and to the anger which furrowed his brows.
He disappeared by the staircase del Tenorio, preceded by Don Antolin, who, after opening the iron gates, had placed himself at his orders, shaking with fear.