公主的生日
ed at the
garden, trict order of precedence,
t names going first.
A procession of noble boys, fantastically dressed as tOREADORS,
came out to meet of tierra-Nueva, a
een years of age, uncovering
he grace of a born hidalgo and grandee of Spain,
led o a little gilt and ivory c was
placed on a raised dais above the children grouped
ttering to
eacor stood laughing
at trance. Even the Camerera-Mayor as she was
called - a tured
look quite so bad-tempered as usual, and something like a chill
smile flitted across chin
bloodless lips.
It certainly was a marvellous bull-fighe
Infanta t, t t s
to see at Seville, on t of the Duke of
Parma to on richly-
caparisoned h gay
streamers of brigtaco t on foot
cloaks before ting lightly
over the bull himself,
like a live bull, though he was only made of wicker-
retcimes insisted on running round
the arena on his hind legs, which no live bull ever dreams of
doing. of it too, and t so
excited t tood up upon their lace
: BRAVO tORO! BRAVO tORO! just as
sensibly as if t last, however,
after a prolonged combat, during whe hobby-horses
ed, the
young Count of tierra-Nueva brougo his knees, and
ained permission from ta to give the COUP DE
GRACE, o th
suc t off, and disclosed the
laugtle Monsie