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"His name, in the German language," interrupted the magistrate,

"is Wallenstein, as I have heard it uttered many times by the

Spanish keeper of the castle. But be of good courage--"

"Do you dare teach me," replied the count. Here Don Roderick

whispered to him to cease contradiction, as there would be no end

to it. He obeyed; and the podestà, like a vessel unimpeded by

shoals, continued with full sails the course of his eloquence.

"Wallenstein gives me but little anxiety; because the Count Duke

has his eye every where; and if Wallenstein carries matters with

a high hand, he will soon set him right. He has his eye every

where, I say, and unlimited power; and if it is his policy that

the Signor Duke of Nevers should not take root in Mantua, he will

never flourish there, be assured. It makes me laugh to see the

Signor Cardinal de Richelieu contend with an Olivares.