Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-10-08
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should trsmble for any one loved who
made that city resting place-a city swept
from end to end by crafty, treacherous. Icy
winds blowing straight from the Guadar-
rama mountains; insidious blasts IN which
Turk the seeds Of consumption and death.
So 1t our leisur3 we went southwark,
hating at such places and seeing sncn sigh's
as we thought fit; lingering here an0 there
Just so long as it suited us; travelling by easy
stages and in such comfort as we could COM
mand, At Malaga we spent weeks, reve!in.
in the balmy, delicious air; at Granada we
were days and days before we could tear
ourselves from the interesting, absorbing
glories of the departed Moor. We were in
a new world-a world which had always
lonzed to see. At last-it was just at the
end of April when the land was full Of
roses, when vegetation was breaking into
that rich luxurance unknown in the north
ern lands-we turned our steps to the city
which had in my own mind fixet upon as
the end OF our wanderings. the half Spanish.
half Moorish, bat wholly beautiful city Of
Seville; brilliant, romantic Seville, with its
fiower-bedecked houses, its groves Of orange
and olive trees, its luxuriant gardens, its
crooked narrow streets its Moorish walls.
insignificance under the shadow of the lofty
Gralda. All wanted seemed to be here.
Here was everything for the sake of seek
ing which had profess I'd to leave foggy
England-sun, warmth, color, brightness.
Here l thought, if in any place in the world,
will the one love forget what she knows
of the cruel past. Here, it may be, our new
life shall begin.
Glorious, wonderful Seville! The magic
charm of the place fell on my companions
as it fell upon me, as indeed 1t falls upon all
who visit it. BY common consent we ar.
ranged to stay our course for an indefinite
time. Perhaps by now we all thought that
we had endured enough of hotel life, and
wanted some place which might bear the
name of home; SO, although such things are
not very easy TO find, hired furnished
house. Such house!
From the narrow street.-the need of shade
makes narrow streets indispensable to Sc
ville-pass through light open-work iron
gate into a spacious white marble-lined
courtyard, or, as the Spanards call it, patio;
a courtyard open to the sky. save for the
gayly-colored awning which Is sometimes
spread over it; space fragrant to the four
corners with the perfume of orange and
other sweet-smelling blossoms, bright with
glowing Oleanders, and musical with the
murmur of fountains. Around the walls
statues, some of the fair works of art, paint.
ings and mirrors. Every sitting-room in the
house opening on to this cool central fairy
land--a fairyland which, for many months
of the year, is almost the only part of the
house used in their waking hours by the Sc.
villanos. Add to this garden, not large
but exquisite, full Of the rarest and choicest
blooms, and If you are not hopelessly bigoted,
and enamorei of English fogs. you must
long for such home in courtly, beautiful
Sevillei
With such neutrality-suspicious. those Of
Sybarite-who can blame me for being
lulled into security, if not forgetfulness, and
for telling myself that my troubles were
nearly at an end? Who can wonder at the
castles built as hour after hour lounged
in the patio, with its fragrant, soothing
atmosphere, and gazed at Philippa's bcauti.
full face. and now and again meeting her
dark eyes, and sometimes surprising In those
thoughtful depths Il lock which thrilled my
heart--a Loo; which told myself was one
of love?