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Royalists. Both she and her husband being na- 

 tives of Lima, and persons of wealth and high 

 rank, their politics had long been suspected to 

 have a tendency to the Independent cause, which 

 offered to persons so situated a great increase of 

 fortune and consequence ; and many people deem- 

 ed the fair lady'^s sorrow was not so deep-seated 

 as her tears implied. But hypocrisy was the 

 ruling sin of the hour. 



I dined one day with a party of gentlemen at a 

 pleasant country house in Miraflores, a fashion- 

 able bathing place, six miles south of Lima. Vil- 

 las and ornamented cottages were thickly scatter- 

 ed around us, but instead of being filled with 

 company, as in times of peace, no one was now to 

 be seen, although this was the height of the sea- 

 son : the sea broke idly on the beach without wet- 

 ting the feet of a single bather; not a guitar, nor 

 a song, nor the merry sound of a dance, was 

 heard in any of the bowers or shady verandahs ; 

 no lively groupes were seated on the neat stone 

 benches, tastefully fitted up round the houses; 

 and the fine shady gravel walks in the numerous 

 gardens round the villas were quite deserted, and 



