Familiar Spanish Travels, By W. D. Howells

























































































 -   Elevating his voice
of a sudden, he told the infidel he lied, and raising his arm at the
same time - Page 319
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Elevating His Voice Of A Sudden, He Told The Infidel He Lied, And Raising His Arm At The Same Time He Smote Him On The Head With His Sheathed Sword.

In an instant the Court of Lions glistened with the flash of arms," insomuch that the American lady whom

We saw writing a letter beside a friend sketching there must have been startled from her opening words, "I am sitting here with my portfolio on my knees in the beautiful Court of the Lions," and if Muley Aben Hassan had not "overheard the tumult and forbade all appeal to force, pronouncing the person of the ambassador sacred," she never could have gone on.

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I did not doubt the fact when I read of it under the level boughs of the beechen tree with J. W., sixty years ago, by the green woodland light of the primeval forest which hemmed our village in, and since I am well away from the Alhambra again I do not doubt it now. I doubt nothing that Irving says of the Alhambra; he is the gentle genius of the place, and I could almost wish that I had paid the ten pesetas extra which the custodian demanded for showing his apartment in the palace. On the ground the demand of two dollars seemed a gross extortion; yet it was not too much for a devotion so rich as mine to have paid, and I advise other travelers to buy themselves off from a vain regret by giving it. If ever a memory merited the right to levy tribute on all comers to the place it haunts, Washington Irving's is that memory.

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