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The carriage had already penetrated into the midst of the crowd,

but was here suddenly stopped by one of those obstructions, the

unavoidable consequence of a journey like this. The aged Ferrer

presented, now at one window of his carriage, now at the other, a

countenance full of humility, of sweetness, and benevolence; a

countenance which he had always kept in reserve for the day in

which he should appear before Don Philip IV.; but he was

constrained to make use of it on this occasion. He spoke; but the

noise and buzzing of so many voices, and the shouts of applause

which they bestowed on him, allowed but little of his discourse

to be heard.