Excerpt from Vargas, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale of Spain

Father! oh sacred title!
And to bestow it on a wretch. - A wretch!
To think him such is treason. I must change
My inmost soul, and look on vice as virtue,
Lest I should curse my father. From the Spanish.

The faithful people of Seville, the old Christians as they called themselves, were on the tiptoe of expectation. A new subject for conversation was afforded by the annunciation of an auto de fe!

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