He Interested Me Beyond Any
Reason I Could Give; He Looked As If He Might Represent The Highest
Society In Ronda, But Did Not Find It An Adequate Occupation, And Might
Well Have Interests And Ambitions Beyond It.
I make him my excuses for
intruding my print upon him, but I would give untold gold if I
Had it to
know all about such a man in such a city, walking up and down under the
embrowning trees and shrinking flowers of its Alameda, on a Sunday
morning like that.
Our guide led us to the back gate of our hotel garden, where we found
ourselves in the company of several other students of English. There was
our charming young guide of the day before and there was that sad
hunchback already mentioned, and there was their teacher who seemed so
few years older and master of so little more English. Together we looked
into the valley into which the vision makes its prodigious plunge at
Ronda before lifting again over the fertile plain to the amphitheater of
its mighty mountains; and there we took leave of that nice boy who would
not follow us into our garden because, as he showed us by the sign, it
was forbidden to any but guests. He said he was going into the country
with his family for the afternoon, and with some difficulty he owned
that he expected to play there; it was truly an admission hard to make
for a boy of his gravity.
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