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Updated: May 15, 2025
Spain, I take it, is the most misunderstood of countries. The world cannot get over seeing it through the pink mist of Carmen, an astounding Gallic caricature, half flattery and half libel. The actual Spaniard is surely no such grand-opera Frenchman as the immortal toreador. I prescribe the treatment that cured me, for one, of mistaking him for an Iberian.
I got interested in the opera. Presently, I ventured to glance at Dehra she was laughing behind her fan. Then I ventured again. "I hope," said I, "I did it nicely." "Most artistically, my dear Armand. Escamillo, yonder, could not do it more cleverly." I winced. It is not especially flattering to an Archduke to be classed with a toreador and Carmen's toreador, least of all.
The petite figure of the young girl, and the graceful folds of her skirt, admirably harmonized with Chu Chu's lithe contour, and as the mare arched her slim neck and raised her slender head under the pressure of the reins, it was so like the lifted velvet-capped toreador crest of Consuelo herself, that they seemed of one race.
Down the coast they steamed toward the beach where Billings had made his crossing in the hydro-aeroplane and just at dusk the lookout announced a light dead ahead. It proved to be aboard the Toreador, and a half-hour later there was such a reunion on the deck of the trig little yacht as no one there had ever dreamed might be possible.
The spirit of ambition, rivalry, and the methods of a degenerate and cruel finance had seized him, mastered him; so that, under the cloak of power as a toreador hides the blade under the red cloth before his enemy the toro he held a sword of capital which did cruel and vicious things, at last becoming criminal also.
Manuel returned the gaze, wondering where he had seen the face before, yet unable to identify it. Then the newcomer crossed and proffered the Spaniard a cigarette from a gold case, which the toreador declined with a shake of his head. "Gracias, Señor," he said, "but I am waiting for the King." The other smiled, and the visitor noticed that even in smiling his lips fell into lines of sadness.
He came and stood in front of Christophe, and like a toreador with his cape, furiously waved the crumpled newspaper in his face and shouted: "Your muck, sir!... You deserve to have your nose rubbed in it!" Christophe recognized the socialist paper. "I don't see what harm there is in it," he said. "What! What!" screamed the Grand Duke.
Isabel, in full Spanish costume, led the grand march with young Hofer, who was dressed as a toreador, and supported the jeers of his friends in the gallery with what fortitude he could summon: he was plump and pink and golden.
Here he erred, for Leicester found the chance for which he had manoeuvred to use the feint and thrust got out of Italy. He brought his enemy low, but only after a duel the like of which had never been seen at the Court of England. The toreador had slain his bull at last, but had done no justice to his reputation.
It is brave. It is magnificent! Ah! I could love the toreador. But the man of the prize-fight he is the brute, the human beast, the savage primitive, the maniac that receives many blows in his stupid face and rejoices. Come to Quito and I will show you the brave sport of men, the toreador and the bull." But John Harned did not go to Quito for the bull-fight. He went because of Maria Valenzuela.
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