sate in his palace with his new minister. "Whence that shout?" said the
king, hastily.

"It rises, doubtless, from the honest hearts of your loyal people at the
execution of Calderon."

Philip shaded his face with his hand, and mused a moment: then, turning
to Olivarez with a sarcastic smile, he said: "Behold the moral of the
life of a courtier, count! What do they say of the new opera?"

At the close of his life, in disgrace and banishment, the count-duke, for
the first time since they had been uttered, called to his recollection
those words of his royal master.

'The fate of Calderon has given rise to many tales and legends. Amongst
those who have best availed themselves of so fruitful a subject may be
ranked the late versatile and ingenious Telesforo de Trueba, in his work
on "The Romances of Spain." In a few of the incidents, and in some of
the names, his sketch, called "The Fortunes of Calderon," has a
resemblance to the story just concluded. The plot, characters, and
principal events, are, however, widely distinct in our several
adaptations of an ambiguous and unsatisfactory portion of Spanish
history.