[1492 by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link book1492 CHAPTER V 6/22
"Don Pedro-- ?" I told the enmity there and the reason for it.
"The Jewish rabbi, my great-grand father ?" I avowed it, but by three Castilian and Christian great-grandfathers could not be counted as Jew! Practise Judaism? No.
My grandmother Judith had been Christian. She drove to the heart of it.
"You yourself are Christian.
What do you mean by that? What the Queen means? What the Grand Cardinal and the Archbishop of Granada means? What the Holy Office means ?" I kept silence for a moment, then I told her as well as I might, without fever and without melancholy, what I had written and of the Dominican. "You have been," she said, "an imprudent cavalier." The fountain flashed below us, a gray dove flew over garden.
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