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wretchedness , gaiety and g loom , silk and rags ; the irregularity of the houses ; the near neighbourhood of the ruinous hut and the marble palace ; the group of caballeros ladrones ( robber cavaliers , Anglic ^—swell mob , ) assembled in an advantageous position to note all arrivals and departures , and afterwards to sally forth to their calling ; the troops of dogs , and their rendezvous near the market-place , which is apt to end in a general melee ; arrival oi 7
me tlie " galerasfrom the country , the matted awnings , mud-clodded wheels , wild looking mules and drivers , the misanthropic dog posted between the wheels , and the iron pot lashed on behind , telling loudly " of bad roads and plains , and uninhabited regions , requiring both food and kitchen to travel with ;" the independent dealers who habitually take their stand and
deposit their wares in the passages of the regular shops , or entrances of the houses , cooking their beans and lard , which form their soup and olla , in an earthen vessel , fitted to a little iron tripod , containing a few live embers ; the rwsticos , or country people , who come in to dispose of their wares , then prepare and eat their dinners , roll themselves up in their mantas , take their siesta and
return , as independent as Arabs of the desert ; the numerous guitar players , surrounded by a crowd the moment they are heard by this music-loving population , but deserted before the concluding couplet , when the hat goes round , and encounters but " thin air , " or the elbow of some passenger in a hurry ; the long * dead walls of the convents , with here and there the shaven poll and bright eye sinister of some anchorite at the window of his
cell , near whom the curious observer may discover the existence of ' a green bottle of amphoric form , vulgarly called a Donna Juana , * reposing on the window stools during the cool of the morning and evening , to mellow and call forth the perfume of the supernaculum contained within it ; the nunneries , with ample store of latticed windows , whence the sisters may see without being seen ; the butcher ' s horse , like a moving market , with six
sheep hideously suspended on each side by large iron hooks to the wooden pack-saddle , and protruding their awful heads and limbs to the imminent danger oi ladies' cloaks in the narrow streets , the owner himself mounted in the middle , and a chained mastiff trotting by the side , scowling defiance at all the dogs who faithfully accompany the tempting cortege in its progress ; the astounding rush of the twenty or thirty asses returning from their day ' s wort at the lime-kilns , their driver with his rattan behind , and their
empty sacks flapping at their sides , enveloping them in a cloud of lime-dust , as they clatter at a desperate pace along the pavement , or dodge between horsemen and carriages ; the professor of feno ing giving his lesson in the open air ; the pointed , murderous flint stones of the pavement ; the chains hanging- in festoons ovfer the gateway of some mansion , marking that ; " pur lord the king *
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Madrid in 1835 . 533
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 533, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/9/
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