The Bridge of San Luis Rey Page #2

denounced three times by the Inquisition...

...and but for the influence

of your son-in-law in Spain...

...might have been burned at the stake.

Pass me the blessed See's

maps of the New World.

"Dedicated to the Oondesa D'Abuirre,

daughter of

the Marquesa de Montemayor...

...who is the admiration of her city...

...and a rising sun in the west. "

My dear Marquesa.

Having sustained the career

of this can'tographer...

...you daughter has a reputation...

...as one of the most outstanding women

of intelligence at the Spanish court.

So, how is it possible that her mother...

...the daughter

of a conniving cloth merchant...

...the wife of a ninny

of a ruined nobleman...

...how is it possible that from the womb

of such witlessness...

...is born such wisdom?

You have my permission

to travel to Europe...

...and attend to her at court in Spain.

The King has issued

your invitation personally.

Oh! Your Excellency!

And my next project is

with the scientist Azuarius.

His treatise on the law of hydraulics

was originally suppressed...

...by the Inquisition

as being too exciting...

...so it will take quite some funds...

...to dampen the criticisms

of certain persons of the Ohurch.

My clever little Olara.

My allowance from you

is simply not sufficient.

Am I literally to sustain...

...all the arts and sciences of Spain?

Some of your schemes

seem so grandiose...

...as to require all the wealth of Peru

to maintain them.

It is just too torturous of you

to reproach my expenses.

I knew nothing good could come

of your being called to Spain.

It's not my fault that nothing memorable

has been produced in this time.

The knowledge

that I may never be loved in return...

...is just too much to bear.

We have all of us

fallen victim to the tyranny...

...of loving more

for the sake of ourselves.

May God grant you the gift of a daughter

who truly loves her mother...

...rather than dazzle her

with secret indifference.

God go with you.

The visit was anticipated with resolutions

well-nourished on self-reproach...

...the one to be patient

and the other undemonstrative.

Both failed.

It is almost impossible to imagine

the pains Doa Maria endured...

...in order to seduce

her daughter's affections.

She would force herself out into society

in order to cull its ridicules...

...insinuate herself into the company

of the most celebrated conversationalists.

Too often, unfortunately,

among harborers of heretical opinion.

Some of us harbored fears

for her sanity.

False fears,

as it happened, Archbishop.

Madness?

The devil's diagnosis.

Artistic more accurately describes

her distracted nature...

...though I know that the Archbishop

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