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I wish to say that the tobacco lavished upon the espada was collected for the behoof of all the prisoners. Our fiction has made so much of our summer places as the mise en scene of its love stories that I suppose I ought to say something of this side of our colonial life.
I will not disgrace them"; and he bent forward and looked into his friend's eyes. His glance prolonged his words went further than speech went where speech could not reach. "Listen to me, Luis. As a matter of precision, where now are the Americans?" "At the mission of Espada." "La Espada? the sword the name is ominous." "Of success, Lopez." "Is Houston, then, with you?" "Until a few days ago.
When the espada finally performs his courageous feat under such conditions, he obtains such an ovation as his skill deserves. Hats of all sorts and shapes are cast to him in the arena, which he has to pick up and throw or hand back to the admirers who testify their satisfaction in this curious manner. Cigars, also, are thrown at the successful bull-fighter's feet, and these he keeps.
If, however, the espada is long in despatching the bull, or in the slightest degree "shows the white feather," he is grossly insulted, and empty bottles, orange-peel, cigar stumps, &c. are thrown at him till he leaves the Plaza.
The less strong-minded of the two, the father yielded, and even furnished funds sufficient for a year's private tutoring by Frascuelo, then the greatest matador in all Spain. Thus the first time Mauro ever appeared before a public assembly was a chief espada of a cuadrilla of his own, at Valladolid.
There was nothing important you had to say, was there?" "That's all," said Blythe. "Unless you wouldn't mind sending in another drink from the bar as you go out. Old Espada has closed my account to profit and loss. And pay for the lot, will you, like a good fellow?" "All right," said Goodwin. "Buenas noches."
"The intruder's explanation was certainly a very clever one," he remarked in French. "It is a pity you did not demand to see his friend, Pedro Espada. If you had, you would have discovered him to be nonexistent." "But he was so clever," I answered. "He told me that at that hour he could not discover in which room his friend was really sleeping."
The church has since been repaired, and divine service is performed in it. About half a mile further down is the mission of San Juan. The church forms part of the sides of the square, and on the north-west corner of the square are the remains of a small stone tower. This mission, as well as that of La Espada, is inhabited.
A curious incident is related by Count Vasili as having happened in the Bull-Ring in Madrid some years ago during a corrida of Cúchares, the celebrated espada.
When I was in Madrid sometime later I went to a number of bull-fights before I put the story together. 'But, I asked Harris, 'Is it possible for an espada to stand in the bull ring with his back to the bull, during a charge, as you have made him do frequently in the story? 'Of course not, he answered me at once, smiling his frankly malevolent smile, 'Of course not.
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