Civilisation in Seville 



party seemed scarcely to see the force of when it was 

 explained. The romance of their lives is generally to 

 become as European and un-Spanish as possible. It is one 

 of the privileges of imagination to perceive the romantic 

 element in what is familiar. Perhaps the greatest triumph 

 of the genius of Cervantes was in laying the scene of the 

 best romance ever written in the immediate neighbourhood 

 of his own home. 



We adjourned to the opera, and saw the troublesome 

 Suppositiy which is wearisomely popular. 



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