As They Stood Smoking Motionlessly, Letting The
Smoke Drift From Their Nostrils, They Seemed Somehow Of The Same Make
With The Slouching Hounds, And They Leaned Forward Together, Giving The
Hunters No Visible Or Audible Greeting, But Questioning Their Will With
One Quality Of Gaze.
The hunters moved toward them, but not as if they
belonged together, or expected any sort of demonstration from the men,
dogs, and horses that were of course there to meet them.
As long as our
train paused, no electrifying spark kindled them to a show of emotion;
but it would have been interesting to see what happened after we left
them behind; they could not have kept their attitude of mutual
indifference much longer. These peasants, like the Spaniards everywhere,
were of an intelligent and sagacious look; they only wanted a chance,
one must think, to be a leading race. They have sometimes an anxiety of
appeal in their apathy, as if they would like to know more than they do.
There was some livelier thronging at the station where the train stopped
for luncheon, but secure with the pretty rush-basket which the head
waiter at our hotel, so much better than the hotel, had furnished us at
starting, we kept to our car; and there presently we were joined by a
young couple who were unmistakably a new married couple. The man was of
a rich brown, and the woman of a dead white with dead black hair. They
both might have been better-looking than they were, but apparently not
better otherwise, for at Seville the groom helped us out of the car with
our hand-bags.
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