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CHAPTER XXXVII
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He mingles the earthly and the heavenly." "It is true," said Fray Juan Perez, "that age comes upon him.

And true, too, that King Ferdinand may say, 'Whatever it was at first, this world in the West becomes far too vast a matter for one man and the old, first, simple ways!'" "You have it there," I answered, and we covered the embers and went to bed in La Rabida.
Winter passed.

It was seen that the Admiral could not sail this week nor the next.
Juan Lepe, bearded, brown as a Moor, older than in the year Granada fell, crossed with quietness much of Castile and came on a spring evening to the castle of Don Enrique de Cerda.

Again "_Juan Lepe from the hermitage in the oak wood_." Seven days.

I would not stay longer, but in that time the ancient trees waved green again.
Don Enrique had been recently to Granada.


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