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Here the curate went on to relate briefly his brother's adventure with

Zoraida; to all which the Judge gave such an attentive hearing that he

never before had been so much of a hearer The curate, however, only went

so far as to describe how the Frenchmen plundered those ere in the

boat, and the poverty and distress in which his comrade and the fair Moor

were left, of whom he said he had not been able to learn what became of

them, or whether they had reached Spain, or been carried to France by the

French a little to one side, was listening to all the

curate said, and watching every movement of his brother, who, as soon as

he perceived the curate had h

and said with his eyes full of tears, "Oh, senor, if you only knehat

news you have givenfrom my eyes in spite of all my

worldly wisdom and self-restraint! That brave captain that you speak of

isof a bolder and loftier mind than my

other brother orof arms,

which was one of the three careers our father proposed to us, as your

co you I

followed that of letters, in which God and my own exertions have raised

me to the position in which you see me My second brother is in Peru, so