San Cristóbal de la Habana

There are certain cities, strange to the first view, nearer the heart than home. But it might be better to acknowledge that, perhaps, the word home has a wider and deeper signif...

Yes, that was the danger of skilfully prepared intoxicating drinks.... The word intoxicating adequately expressed their power, their menace to orderly monotonous resignation. A...

The gin rickey proved to be an immediate reality, in the patio of the Inglaterra--a stream of silver bubbles shot into a glass where an emerald lime floated vivaciously. I had n...

I should have liked to be at either table--their attractions were equal; but, forced to remain alone, I thought of how rude the English would have been had I moved over to them....

They returned, in the intermissions, to chaperons complacent or secretly disturbed, where they had, principally, refrescos; but their attitude was one of progress and conscious,...

But even yet it would be possible, with the details carefully arranged, to find an emotional situation in a patio undisturbed since the middle eighteenth century; for the reveng...

I became, then, discouraged by the formal entertainments. As usual, I was too late; the process of improvement had everywhere marched slightly ahead of me, substituting for the...

But the men of Havana, it seemed, were quite contented to talk, to sit in a café over refrescos or in a parque with nothing at all but cigars, and discuss eternally, with a pass...

I had a vision of appearing with her wrapped in a frivolous cloak, before the experienced wisdom of the Inglaterra manager, in the corridor of American salesmen, among the wives...

The danzon, for a moment, in spite of the music played continuously and alternately by two orchestras occupying a box on either side of the stage, seemed formal. Then, abruptly,...

A huddle of cabins at the edge of a wall of black pines beyond a deep ruined field--but perhaps this was South Carolina--infinitesimal ragged patches of corn, a sandy trail lost...