CHAPTER XVI.

THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS 189-205

Torquemada Resolves Upon Immediate Expulsion of all Unconverted Jews.--The Fatal Edict.--The Spaniards Moved to Pity.--Don Isaac Abarbanel Pleads with the Queen.--The Queen Hesitates.--Torquemada, the Fiend, Conquers Again.--The Ill-fated Jews Seek Among the Dead the Pity which the Living Refuse.--The Departure.