Preface: For the new year, Cinematic is giving way to a new Sunday 'feature,' The Pen and the Sword, featuring excerpts from cape-a...

Rodriguez wished that he could have had a less ambition than to win a castle in the wars, for in those glades and among those oaks he felt t...

And Rodriguez remembered all those passes and feints that he had had from his father, and which Sevastiani, a master of arms in Madrid, had ...

"A vile song, señor, and a vile tune with it," said a voice quite close. However much the words hurt his pride in his mandolin R...

"Master," said Morāno, "shall we have more adventures to-day?" "I trust so," said Rodriguez, "We have f...

"Master," said Morāno, looking at the sapphire now on his own little finger near the top joint, the only stone amongst his row of ...

"But to you I leave my long, most flexible, ancient Castilian blade, which infidels dreaded if old songs be true. Merry and lithe it is...