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Updated: June 28, 2025
The bull-fighter dresses peculiarly and the gente flamenca, imitates him so far as its means allow. A famous matador is as well paid as in England a Cabinet Minister or a music-hall artiste. This is his costume: a broad-brimmed hat with a low crown, which is something like a topper absurdly flattened down, with brims preposterously broadened out.
It was the grace of the bull-fighter, to whom awkwardness would mean death. "I had your letter. It was correctly directed Manuel Blanco, Calle Isaac Peral." The Spaniard smiled delightedly. "When one is once more to see an old friend, one does not delay. How am I? Ah, it is good of the Señor to ask. I do well. I have retired from the Plaza de Toros.
"Their last move of eight o'clock last night was to organize themselves into a Monterist Committee which sits, as far as I know, in a posada kept by a retired Mexican bull-fighter, a great politician, too, whose name I have forgotten. But all this is nonsense.
A man got quickly out a lithe figure with a broad-brimmed hat slanted across his eyes. It was, she realized with an involuntary quickening of her blood, Abrego y Mochales. A second man followed, tendered him a curiously shaped object, and stood by the waiting cab while the bull-fighter walked deliberately forward. He stopped under the window and shifted the thing in his hands.
"Let's see what you've made," I suggested, whereupon he produced an outfit which appeared to be a compromise between the costume of an Italian bandit, the uniform of an Australian soldier, and the regalia of a Spanish bull-fighter.
One patio is often much like another, though none was perhaps of so much public interest as the patio of the lady who loved a bull-fighter and has made her patio a sort of shrine to him.
As the bull came charging, he used the cape to lead him to one side, allowing just room enough for the horns to pass. If he waited too long before he turned the bull, of course it would mean trouble; but if he turned the bull too soon, it would be clumsy. Whatever else he did the bull-fighter must not be clumsy.
"A bull-fighter, I believe," she said carelessly. "In other words, a brute," Orsi continued. "Such men are not fit for the society of of your sister. One would think his mere presence would make her ill.... Yet she seemed quite pleased." "Strange!" Lavinia spoke with innocent eyes.
There is one called John Bull on the Guadalquivir, the chief incident in which occurred to me and a friend of mine on our way up that river to Seville. We both of us handled the gold ornaments of a man whom we believed to be a bull-fighter, but who turned out to be a duke, and a duke, too, who could speak English! How gracious he was to us, and yet how thoroughly he covered us with ridicule!
We did pass the day together; and when the diligence arrived I deposited myself within, and on the morning of the second day arrived at Madrid. Lodging at Madrid My Hostess British Ambassador Mendizabal Baltasar Duties of a National Young Blood The Execution Population of Madrid The Higher Orders The Lower Classes The Bull-fighter The Crabbed Gitano.
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