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I should imagine the eternal dance, with which certain tribes of American savages think they are to be rewarded in a future existence, might be formed somewhat on this model. Indeed the Fandango arrived in Spain with the conquerors of the other hemisphere, and is far too lively and extatic to be of European original.
When they returned to the veranda, Johnny was chipper, the visitor darkly frowning, Mercedes animated, and the other girl still faintly and aloofly smiling. The fandango went on for an hour; and the rivalry between Johnny and the young Spaniard grew in intensity. Certainly Mercedes did nothing to modify it. The scene became more animated and more interesting.
She was at her wits' end to know what to do to relieve the tension, until she finally hit upon the idea of giving an old-fashioned Spanish fandango a fiesta. The thought was a happy one. It was not only one of those things she had always wanted to see, but it would be a break something to relieve the strain of her daily existence; she pursuing, he avoiding her.
"'No, says she, tossing up the stunner I spoke of, 'I never was in Prance; but I was in Tipperary, if that would sarve him. "I shook my head, your honor, as much as to say 'It's no go this time. "'Ma'am, says I, 'that's unfortunate my masther, when he gets a loose leg, will never marry any woman that has not been in France, and can dance the fandango like a Frenchman.
She looked upon "Did I which?" as an incomplete and imperfect form of "What did I do?" She quoted from Browning and Tennyson, and was believed to have read them. She was from Boston. What could she possibly be doing at a free-and-easy fandango? Even if these facts were not already familiar to everyone there, her outward appearance would have attracted attention.
Had Miss Mannersley, who must have recognized Enriquez' hand in this, concealed the fact in a desire to shield him? But this was so inconsistent with her utter indifference to him, except as a grotesque study, that she would have been more likely to tell her uncle all about his previous performance. Nor could it be that she wished to conceal her visit to the fandango.
A few there may be amongst the lot who are authoritative, or saucy, or ill-naturedly solemn; but the generality are simple-dealing, quaintly-exhuberant, oddly-straightforward, and primitively-pious people distinctly sincere, periodically eccentric, and fond of a good religious outburst, a shining spiritual fandango now, and then. As we have before intimated the minister of the Chapel is Mr.
Ay, there was another," continued Saint Vrain, with a peculiar smile; "but what could have brought him there is that which puzzles me. Armijo could not have seen him: but go on." I related to Saint Vrain the whole of my conversation with the stranger, and the incidents that led to the breaking up of the fandango. "It is odd very odd! What could he want with your horse?
One of our pleasures was to watch in the evenings the Spaniards, shedding their usual lethargy, dance the fandango and the bolero with a perfection of grace and agility, even in the villages. The colonel offered them the use of his band, but they, quite rightly, preferred the guitar, the castanets, and a woman's voice; an accompaniment which gave the dance its national characteristics.
There was a full moon in the heavens, the night was still, the air crisp with the tang of October in the north, and they were alone in the shadow of the "tabernacle." Lights gleamed in the little windows that stretched to the right and left of them. Far off somewhere in the dark, an unseen musician was gently thrumming a fandango on his Spanish guitar.
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