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"Besides the circumstance of his granting protection to the man I

have mentioned, this same Father Christopher has undertaken to

contend-but we can settle it together with my nephew, Don

Roderick."

"Oh, I am sorry for that, I am sorry for that, truly."

"My nephew is young, rash, and not accustomed to provocation."

"It becomes my duty to obtain the best information on the

subject. Your excellency, with your experience of the world,

knows better than I, that we are all frail, liable to error-some

one way, some another; and if our Father Christopher has

failed--"