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On this day, in Madrid, takes place the washing of the feet of the poor in the Royal Palace a function that savours a good deal of the ridiculous, but which was never omitted by the piadosa Isabel II., and was revived by her son.
It was almost impossible that it should be otherwise, considering the wild tumult of the varying opinions and the experiments in government that the country had passed through; and some of the difficulties of the situation to-day are no doubt due to the concessions made to the ultra-Conservative party in the re-introduction of the religious orders, which had been suppressed during the regency of Cristina, and had never been tolerated even during the reign of the piadosa, Isabel II.
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