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"'Lillas, she said, as soon as she saw me. 'I'm not going to work any more to-day. To-morrow will be a day, too.* Come, fellow-countryman, let us go for a walk! * Manana sera otro dia. A Spanish proverb. "She pulled her mantilla across her nose, and there we were in the street, without my knowing in the least whither I was bound.
Some weeks after my day in the Calle del Candilejo I was on duty at one of the town gates. A little way from the gate there was a breach in the wall. The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in. All through one day I saw Lillas Pastia going backward and forward near the guard-room, and talking to some of my comrades.
In fact, there can't be any such thing as beauty." "No doubt you're right, Cornie dear," she responded, looking down at her beautiful hands. "And what's it all for?" he ejaculated, in a stupefied kind of horror. "All this sordid consolidation of flesh and blood, this disgusting hallucination of attractiveness? All for " "I know," she assented. "More Lillas, ad infinitum. Isn't it tiresome?"
"You may fancy that the moment I was off guard I went to Triana; but first of all I got myself shaved and brushed myself up as if I had been going on parade. She was living with Lillas Pastia, an old fried-fish seller, a gipsy, as black as a Moor, to whose house a great many civilians resorted to eat fritata, especially, I think, because Carmen had taken up her quarters there.
As she passed me by, Carmen looked at me with those eyes you know, and said to me very low, 'Comrade, people who are fond of good fritata come to eat it at Lillas Pastia's at Triana! * In most of the houses in Seville there is an inner court surrounded by an arched portico. This is used as a sitting- room in summer.
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