Familiar Spanish Travels, By W. D. Howells

























































































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mortifying, all the same, to have it openly abhorred by a foreigner, and
I willingly got away from - Page 32
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It Was Mortifying, All The Same, To Have It Openly Abhorred By A Foreigner, And I Willingly Got Away From The Question To That Of The Weather.

We agreed admirably about the heat in England where this gentleman went every summer, and had never found it so hot before.

It was hot even in Denmark; but he warned me not to expect any warmth in Spain now that the autumn rains had begun.

If this couple represented a cosmopolitan and modern Spain, it was interesting to escape to something entirely native in the three young girls who got in at the next station and shared our compartment with us as far as we went. They were tenderly kissed by their father in putting them on board, and held in lingering farewells at the window till the train started. The eldest of the three then helped in arranging their baskets in the rack, but the middle sister took motherly charge of the youngest, whom she at once explained to us as _enferma._ She was the prettiest girl of the conventional Spanish type we Lad yet seen: dark-eyed and dark-haired, regular, but a little overfull of the chin which she would presently have double. She was very, very pale of face, with a pallor in which she had assisted nature with powder, as all Spanish women, old and young, seem to do. But there was no red underglow in the pallor, such as gives many lovely faces among them the complexion of whitewash over pink on a stucco surface.

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