HE RESIGNS TO PHILIP. 233 former prevailed on his son-in-law to pay such at- chapter tention to decorum, and exhibit such outward marks ! of a cordial reconciliation, as, if they did not alto- gether impose on the public, might at least throw a decent veil over the coming separation. Even at this last meeting, however, such was the distrust and apprehension entertained of him, that the un- happy father was not permitted to see and embrace his daughter before his departure. '^^ Throughout the whole of these trvine; scenes, Depanureof o ^ O ' Ferdinand says his biographer, the king maintained that pro- priety and entire self-possession, which comported with the dignity of his station and character, and strikingly contrasted with the conduct of his ene- mies. However much he may have been touched with the desertion of a people, who had enjoyed the blessings of peace and security under his govern- ment for more than thirty years, he manifested no outward sign of discontent. On the contrary, he took leave of the assembled grandees with many expressions of regard, noticing kindly their past services to him, and studying to leave such an im- pression, as should efface the recollection of recent differences.^^ The circumspect monarch looked forward, no doubt, to the day of his return. The event did not seem very improbable ; and there were other sagacious persons besides himself, who 53 Zurita, Anales, torn. vi. lib. 7, 54 Zurita, Anales, torn. vi. lib. cap. 10. — Mariana, Hist, de Es- 7, cap. 10. — Oviedo, Quincuage- pafia, torn. ii. lib. 28, cap. 21. — nas, MS.,bat. 1, quinc. 3, dial. 9. Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. 64. — Peter Martyr, Opus Epist. , epist. 210. VOL. III. 30
