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1492

CHAPTER IV
10/18

Don Enrique and I were rarely together, rarely were seen by men to speak one to the other.

But in the inner world we were together.
Days passed.

We found nothing yet to do while all listening and doing at Santa Fe were bound up in the crumbling of Granada into Spanish hands.
It seemed best to wait, watching chances.
Meantime the show glittered, and man's strong stomach cried "Life! More life!" It glittered at Santa Fe before Granada, and it was a dying ember in Granada before Santa Fe.

The one glittered and triumphed because the other glittered and triumphed not.

And who above held the balances even and neither sorrowed nor was feverishly elated but went his own way could only be seen from the Vega like a dream or a line from a poet.
For the most part the nobles and cavaliers in Santa Fe spent as though hard gold were spiritual gold to be gathered endlessly.


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