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Whilst in conversation with Mr Sothern, Sir George Villiers' private secretary, Borrow's Basque servant Francisco rushed in with the news that the alguazils were again at his rooms searching among his papers, whereat Borrow at once left the Embassy, determined to return to his lodgings.
"The alguazils have turned back, afraid of trusting themselves to this part of the country in the dark. We may now all rest in quiet, for no one is likely to come near us for some hours, at all events." This was satisfactory, and honest Camo and his two followers assured us that they would keep the necessary watch while we rested.
Corregidor. You are a I know not what. Do you know that I have the power to imprison you? Myself. You have twenty alguazils at your beck and call, and have of course the power, and so had your predecessor, who nearly lost his situation by imprisoning me; but you know full well that you have not the right, as I am not under your jurisdiction, but that of the captain-general.
"Do you think I have forgotten all your honour's kindness, how you got me out of the scrape about the smuggling?" "Or the one about thrashing the alguazils," returned the Count, with a smile. "Ah, your señoria was always very good to me," said Paco; "and I am not the man to forget it." "You have an opportunity of showing your gratitude," said the Count.
The guests had only just seated themselves when a party of mounted alguazils arrived at the inn, and, having stabled their horses, walked in to partake of the dinner going forward. Julianillo appeared in no way to be disconcerted. It was an anxious time for Don Francisco, for he could not help fearing that the alguazils were in search of suspected persons.
Throughout this strange ceremony of prayer I seem to see the bull-ring again, and in place of the dilals the cuadrillas of the Matadors coming out to salute, before the alguazils open the gates of the toril and the slaying begins. The dramatic intensity of either scene connects for me this slave market in Marrakesh with the plaza de toros in the shadow of the Giralda tower in Sevilla.
Already your flight has been discovered, and the alguazils are searching for us." "If they come, I will be after giving them a taste of my shillelagh," exclaimed Tim, flourishing the thick stick he carried. "It will be far better to hide ourselves than to oppose them," observed the guide, in his peculiar dialect, which I cannot attempt to imitate.
In the midst of the crowd came and went alguazils, guardians of justice to take care that the lines were not broken and the people did not crowd together.
There were instances in which men of the most venerable dignity, persecuted without cause by extortioners, died of rage and shame in the grip of the vile alguazils of Impey. The harems of noble Mohammedans sanctuaries respected in the East by governments that respected nothing else were burst open by gangs of bailiffs.
As I rode with Ramon into the patio of the hotel, where I had been arrested by the alguazils of the Spanish governor, a man came forward to greet me, so strikingly like the ancient posadero that I felt sure he was the latter's son. My surmise proved correct, and I afterwards heard, not without a sense of satisfaction, that the father was hanged by the patriots when they recaptured Caracas.
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