Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-05-28
q Story of Spain
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Moorish Doctors Parchment.
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FROM EMILE souvEsTRE's "Au COIN DU FEu.'
rnAssLArrp ron THE coMMrnorAL.

of shelter where certain men entitled inn
keepers furnished you, for night, with
smoke and vermin!" Another has added
that in tue inns of the country of the Cid
s.it was not the hosts who fed the travellers,
Int the travellers who fed the hosts" FL
mlly, contemporary writer has just pub
lished that the strangers who traversed the
eastern provinces of Spain ought to bring
their beds with them, under penalty of sleep
ing in sheets permanently sewed on mat
trasses of oily Sleeps wool, and changed
only in the Spring.
Whatever there may be in these observa-
,ions which demands to be verified, it is
nevertheless certain that the posadds of our
day much exceed those with which one net
in Spain two centuries ago. At that epoch,
they were not, in fact, other than a species
Of caravansary, frequented by muleteers,
who there found straw for them and their
beasts.
The most comfortable had only, besides
the stable and the bar room, a garret divided
into several compartments, dignified with
the name of chambers, and which one
reached by ladder.
Now it was into one of these rooms that
Don Jose de Fuez of Alcantra, had just en-
tered, a doctor graduated at Salamanca hi
dalgo in his title of Arturian, but possessing
nothing in the world besides the clothes he
wore, twenty reales, and u tolerable opinion
OF hls own merit.
Although he was hardly more than thirty,
he had already tried several professions
without finding in them the opulence (Which
according to his own ideas he had right to,
as well as any one else), and he had returned
to Leon in the hope Of finding employment
with Count Don Alonzo Mcndos, who pos
scssed a magnificent estate between Toro
and Tamora, which had been already visited
by our doctor. Unfortunately the first
question which he addressed to the landlord
acquainted him with the death of the count,
and he was still under the depression of the
surpri,e and disappointment which that
news had caused him, when our tale opens.
don Alonzo dead !" he repeated, stu
peicd.
And buried, added the innkeeper, 'smag-
niiecnty buried as became man of his
rank
"rhe chateau is then occupied by the
lcirsy"
"lhe only heir is the nephew of the
C6,,nt and hc has riven orders to Percy
lavallos, notary of Argcllcs, to put The
estate in The market 7, ia IN In. sold to.mor
rny If 7 an, mn, n;s,,lor Ia , nav nro.
n,i.,.,rp Jose thor,ht mat la nrnbahlv
,y,nld reod aao,,. +, ,non.ao h;s nav .s,a,.
and wopld nerbans acccn, Ills services He
declared consequently. after n moment's
II ,houpht. that he would await tho dav Of sale
nj the inn
The inn.ke,ner encouraged him in hi.
resolution assuring him that he could no.
where find bet,er cooking or better lodcing
am, supportcd his assertion bv capsipF him
IL remark ,ll ,he conven;enees If the ,oop
which he baa ass;oned IN him
ii u.s IN ,,,,,, ,,o,, ,,,n,;I.to1 40 tbro,
nnn.s ,vere n,;ss;r, i, Tho ,v;rdow 5wh;c,
Ind o,lv fon,, and one en;oved an ,,nI;n;,e,
vie,y of ,he skv III. ,,;ndoy, f,ome bei,,
~ 'A.' .ne "aeo"
A. IN Tho rnrp,,ura i, wac comnoseJ of
woo1en heds,eod s,nn,;sa with a straw bed
lame ioint stool and a ricketv table Will,
The in,ers,ices which exist.d between iii,
carncntcr wor,. formal nc ,be landlord RI
marked a mn,,;t,de of commandments whicl
alyantareouslv replaced closets and trunks
M :. 20 Il, ,,.,.,, an.
viii .o;,.a rars a.r,,,.nworoe r,ass y;als
or. what surnr;sed No, Josa more witt
books and naners Theinn. .kccner informe
him ,bat al, hod ,,oo,, lar, ,,v an old Docto
Win Ind for ooyoral ,,on,ns oco,nied III,
ronm o,,,a,o1 l., ,,,,,,,;.,, 4, ds,;,l;,
pan,s a,d ,s,;,;nn M, sovoro, Indication
lmvin, cauood ,,,s,,,, !, s,,s,,ao, ia, ho ~,
Of Mon,ish ,r;,;, all ~ lac, door.os ,
t6e Kim, ovnroas,,, ,,,dor;n,, ,,,, AZ ,,,s;o
of n, ,ho a.saa,d.,,ts - ,,a, roo io ~,
forced ia go a,vav sndden,v and n ahando
ull Iii hs,n.,ro ,ho, ;a ,, s.,, no Walls !,
papers and tho hooks I,eft alone. .Ios
Fuez If Alc,n,ra could not hcln thinkir
oi lin lono so,;os - ,,;,,,o,,,;os ona aoo;den
which had m ~ ,,,.t ,;,,o o,,aol,erod i,
liC.
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to bimso,f. .ah.,,a,. ,.s ,,;,h,,, oossa,;o
crosscd ~, ,,,a, ~, 4, :, ~ s,.
of evonts Ar', - r,aaa.,;, !, ~ ~ =
always f,l,om ,;a s.,a,, oan,r.,, a;ron,
stances and ramain @ ~ Kina os ] n;s ,;fa ins,,.
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occa.ons :. f'e
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snan ". -iooi,s'i u'c'or' IL was an eAi
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then chosa -, 'e'ei"' p"so
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