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PRELUDE                                                                                    
WHO that cares much to know the history of man, and how the                                                             
mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time,                                                       
has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not                                                  
smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl wa~g$                                                     
forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go                                                    
and seek ma~-dom$ in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled                                                         
from rugged Avila,$ wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but                                                    
with human hearts,l$ already bea . . .