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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: to be a Spaniard. If her father were seven times John Oxenham (and
even that the perverse fellow was inclined to doubt), her mother
was a Spaniard--Pah! one of the accursed race; kinswoman--perhaps,
to his brother's murderers! His jaundiced eyes could see nothing
but the Spanish element in her; or, indeed, in anything else. As
Cary said to him once, using a cant phrase of Sidney's, which he
had picked up from Frank, all heaven and earth were "spaniolated,"
to him. He seemed to recollect nothing but that Heaven had "made
Spaniards to be killed, and him to kill them." If he had not been
the most sensible of John Bulls, he would certainly have
forestalled the monomania of that young Frenchman of rank, who,
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