I Should Not Say That There Was Any
Noticeable Decay Of Character From The North To The South Such As The
Attributive Pride Of The Old Castilian In The Sheridan Knowlesian Drama
Would Teach; The Cordovese Looked No More Shiftless Than The Haughtiest
Citizens Of Burgos.
They had decidedly prettier _patios_ and more of them, and they had many
public carriages against none whatever in that ancient capital.
Rubber
tires I did not expect in Cordova and certainly did not get in a city
where a single course over the pavements of 850 would have worn them to
tatters: but there seems a good deal of public spirit if one may judge
from the fact that it is the municipality which keeps Abderrahman's
mosque in repair. There are public gardens, far pleasanter than those of
Valladolid, which we visited in an interval of the afternoon, and there
is a very personable bull-ring to which we drove in the vain hope of
seeing the people come out in a typical multitude. But there had been no
feast of bulls; and we had to make what we could out of the walking and
driving in the Paseo del Gran Capitan toward evening. In its long,
discouraging course there were some good houses, but not many, and the
promenaders of any social quality were almost as few. Some ladies in
private carriages were driving out, and a great many more in public ones
as well dressed as the others, but with no pretense of state in the
horses or drivers.
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