But great things that in this age none else seems inclined to do!" "As what ?" I asked.

"I have been called mad myself.

I am not apt to think you so." He began to speak of a mighty crusade to recover the Holy Sepulchre.
The road to Cordova stretched sunny and dusty.

Above the mountains of Elvira the sky stood keen blue.

Juan Lepe said slowly, "Admiral of the Ocean-Sea and Viceroy and Governor of continents and islands in perpetuity, sons and sons' sons after you, and gilded deep with a tenth of all the wealth that flows forever from Asia over Ocean-Sea to Spain, and you and all after you made nobles, grandees and wealthy from generation to generation! Kings almost of the west, and donors to the east, arousers of crusades and freers of the Sepulchre! You build a high tower!" Carters and carts going by pushed us to the edge of road and covered all with dust.