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The danger of cross-country hunting or bull-fighting is as nothing compared to the risk a modern American takes when he sits in a trolley-car, where the chances of his machinery forming a fatal “short circuit” must be immense.
"You are very soft-hearted, all of a sudden, señorita," he said, with a fairly well-defined sneer, when he could bear no more. "You won't enjoy the bull-fighting, then, to-morrow for all you have been looking forward to it so anxiously, and have robbed yourself of ribbons to decorate the darts.
The ladies wear hats instead of mantillas, but they buy hats on Calle Obispo just as and where their mothers and grandmothers bought mantillas. Bull-fighting is gone, presumably forever, but crowds flock to the baseball grounds. The midday suspension of business continues, generally, and the afternoon parade, on foot and in carriages, remains one of the important functions of the day.
When I was alone I thought about the fete, and about the change in Carmen's temper. 'She must have avenged herself already, said I to myself, 'since she was the first to make our quarrel up. A peasant told me there was to be bull-fighting at Cordova. Then my blood began to boil, and I went off like a madman straight to the bull-ring.
He was astonished to hear that bull-fighting and colearing were not universally practised in Europe; and, when his father began to question me about the Crimean war, the young gentleman's remarks showed that he had not the faintest idea where England and France were, nor how far they were from one another.
Bull-fighting is the only punctual thing in Spain, and the president arrives precisely as the clock strikes half-past four. He waves a handkerchief, the band strikes up, a door is opened, and the fighters enter.
You will see them about in all places, and you will get used to them." "But I haven't seen one other as yet." "No, and they are not all so gay as this, nor so new in their finery, you know." "And what is a torero?" "Well, a torero is a man engaged in bull-fighting." "Oh! he is a matador, is he?" said I, looking at him with more than all my eyes. "No, not exactly that; not of necessity.
"But not the duelo, Señor no, but in the contest. For sport, that all may witness, and choose who is champion, after the bull-fighting, and the " "What are you talking about, man?" Dade's hand fell heavily upon the shoulder of Valencia, swaying his whole body with the impact. "Are you loco, to talk of bull-fightings?" "It is the fiesta, Señor!
You believe this temper to be inherent in the sex; and a man, who has just published a book upon the Spanish bull-fights, declares his belief, that the passion for bull-fighting is innate in the breast of every Spaniard. Do not, my friend, assign two causes for an effect where one is obviously adequate.
The gold-spectacled gentleman, as if inspired, came down the wooden steps again, seized the tablecloth of the jam and egg party, lugged it from under the crockery with inadequate precautions against breakage, and advanced with compressed lips, curious lateral crouching movements, swift flashings of his glasses, and a general suggestion of bull-fighting in his pose and gestures.
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