In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael

“My noble boy, I beg your pardon,” he said. “I will tell you frankly that I have thought it was your fault to lay overmuch stress on your own concerns and your own career, a car...

“They pressed around the ivory throne to shield their lord from harm, Till the good Cid woke and rose, our Cid, who never knew alarm; He went to meet the lion, with his mantle o...

“Your uncle thinks so, but I tell him that many a man gets to heaven in tow breeches. Yet surely it fares ill in this world with the people of the brown cloak. There is a saint,...

“The King looked on him kindly, as on a vassal true; Then to the King Ruy Diaz spake after reverence due: ‘O King, the thing is shameful, that any man beside The liege lord of C...

“Thanks upon thanks, most honored sir, but no, no!” interrupted Don Carlos, laying his hand upon the other’s arm, while his voice deepened with emotion. “If you, one of the weal...

Early as it was, the dawn just silvering the edges of the east, Pedrillo and Grandfather, who had been a famous horseman in his day, were busy lading the mules, matching riddles...

All three--for Grandfather had wandered away in search of his guitar--turned to face a bareheaded little lad, drops of sweat standing out upon his forehead and the dark red glow...

Rafael’s chief uneasiness, at first, was about those threatened snakes. What if the crack behind him should be full of them,--clammy serpent coils swaying for the spring! Would...

But the picturesque old gypsy, although he could not help being kind to Pilarica, was in a gloomy mood. He had sold only one of his photographs all day long, and that to a rude...

The verses in this story, with the exception of the two snatches, in chapters 6 and 14, of ballads of the Cid, I have translated directly out of Spanish folk-song. Some of these...

The _fiesta_ lasted for several days. There were solemn ceremonies in the cathedral, stately processions through the streets, fairs, sports, open-air music and dancing. Pilarica...

Pilarica was glad to come out from the hubbub of the streets into the comparative quiet of the great square from whose midst arises, a dark mass of fretted granite, the cathedra...

“Yes,” replied Grandfather. “The trees that are green all the year round enjoy that favor in return for having given shade to the Holy Family on the journey to Egypt, but the wi...