The Hidden Empire A Tale of True Deeds and Great Ones Which the Tropic Sun Witnessed

Excerpt from The Hidden Empire: A Tale of True Deeds and Great Ones Which the Tropic Sun Witnessed

I DO as well remember the first time mine eyes fell upon the little lady Beatriz de la Torre, even now after so many long years, as though it were but yes torday. I, Gonzalo de Cabrera, now gentleman and knight, but passing my boyhood then under the care of mine uncle, the Dean of the Cathedral at Tenerife, and under the tutelage of the monks, destined to the cowl or the cassock, - what had I to do with the little niece of the Governor of the Canaries, Don Pedro Fernandez de Lugo?

Nevertheless, mine uncle was a studious man and so much engrossed with other matters that I ran wild the Island over whenever I was free from the monks during my recreation hours, or when I could escape their dreary instruction by the lightness of my feet in some moment of inadvertence. Little I recked of the caning for the joys of liberty which were mine.

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