Identifier: landofdons00willuoft (find matches)
Title: The land of the Dons
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Leonard, b. 1871
Subjects: Civilization, Spanish Spain -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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watching him in-tently. They possessed a pair of field-glasses, whichthey passed in hasty succession from one to another,and although their features displayed the imper-turbable gravity which Spaniards can assume socleverly when courtesy or convenience requires, theywere certain to be relishing exquisitely the writh-ings of the victim. Whether the latter bangedthe shutters to, or whether he dashed into thegloomiest and remotest recesses of his apartment,he never could bring himself to tell me. But whilehe was toying dejectedly with his dinner, upon theevening of the catastrophe, a note was handed him.It bore the motto of the Federal Republicans Club,whose members therewith begged to ask, Was hethe French contortionist who had arrived with SenorLopez circus, because, if so, would he send thema box for the Sunday afternoon performance ? That he should be taken for a contortionist wasbearable; indeed, it was a role he was conscious ofhaving enacted to perfection ; but the stigma of being
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(To /ucc p. J8.) (Fivm a photoorai-h by ttcoura, Madrid.)AN ARAGONES. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 59 considered French— this was the most unkindestcut of all. A few months afterwards Miiller re-turned disconsolately to Germany, where he died atthe early age of thirty-three; some say of deliriumtremens (for he never again touched water after thatcalamitous afternoon); others, of the bubonic plague,which they affirm him to have contracted in passingthrough Oporto; but as I believe—nay, as I happento know—of a broken heart, a broken ambition, and abroken botijo. Nor is this the only case in which a botijo, or itsnear kinsman, a cdntaro, was responsible for a violentand dreadful murder. All the world is aware thatwomen and wine are inveterate breeders of dissension,but who would have attached the same propensitiesto water ? Yet the following occurrence, sub-stantiated by a number of wearisome and solid factswherewith I refrain from oppressing my readers, isrelated by the mysterious author

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