In return your Council undertakes that there shall be no further opposition to my plans for the military defence of Portugal, and that all my measures however harsh and however heavily they may weigh upon the landowners, shall be punctually and faithfully carried out.

That is your Excellency's proposal, is it not ?" "Not so much my proposal, my lord, as my most earnest intercession.

We desire to spare the innocent the consequences of the sins of a man who is dead, and well dead." He turned to O'Moy, standing there tense and anxious.

It was not for Dom Miguel to know that it was the adjutant's fate that was being decided.

"Sir Terence," he cried, "you have been here for a year, and all matters connected with the Council have been treated through you.