AN EX-INaUISlTOR. 



portly friend, the ex-inquisitor, must I fear be 

 content to follow the stream, and give up his 

 chance of again tormenting his countrymen. 



A story is told of this priest, however, which 

 shows he was not quite hardened by the duties of 

 his former office, but that he mingled his natural 

 feelings with those proper to his calling, in a man- 

 ner rather amiable for an inquisitor. Happening 

 one day to visit a house where four or five Eng- 

 lishmen were dining, he joined in conversation 

 with them ; and was so much pleased with his 

 company, that he turned round to a friend, and 

 exclaimed, " Oh ! what a pity it is that such fine 

 rosy-looking, good young men, should all neces- 

 sarily and inevitably go to the Devil (a los in- 

 fiernos.) 



The domestic manners of the society here dif- 

 fer from those of Chili, almost as much as the 

 dresses. Instead of meeting at balls, concerts, 

 and tertulias or parties, the women associate very 

 little with one another ; there are few dances, 

 very little music, and, except at the bull-fights or 

 the play, and sometimes in the country, the ladies 

 seldom assemble together. But they are all ex- 



