11/22 Your man will not, I think, be sent before a steady wind for Viceroy again--never again. If he presses too persistently, there can always be found one or more who will stand and cry, 'He did intend, O King--he doth intend--to make himself King of the Indies!' And King Ferdinand will say he does not believe, but it is manifest that that thought must first die from men's minds. She has not the voice and the hand in all matters that once was so." "He is one who dies for loyalties," I said. "He reverences all simply the crowns of Castile and Leon. |