The Alhambra . his eyes, a pair of campaigning boots, and a toledo aslong as a spit, with his pocket-handkerchief in the basket-hilt. He was, moreover, exceedingly proud and punctilious, andtenacious of all his privileges and dignities. Under his swaythe immunities of the Alhambra, as a royal residence anddomain, were rigidly exacted. No one was permitted to enterthe fortress with fire-arms, or even with a sword or staff, unlesshe were of a certain rank ; and every horseman was obligedto dismount at the gate, and lead his horse by the bridle. Nowas the hill of the Alhambra rises from the very
The Alhambra . his eyes, a pair of campaigning boots, and a toledo aslong as a spit, with his pocket-handkerchief in the basket-hilt. He was, moreover, exceedingly proud and punctilious, andtenacious of all his privileges and dignities. Under his swaythe immunities of the Alhambra, as a royal residence anddomain, were rigidly exacted. No one was permitted to enterthe fortress with fire-arms, or even with a sword or staff, unlesshe were of a certain rank ; and every horseman was obligedto dismount at the gate, and lead his horse by the bridle. Nowas the hill of the Alhambra rises from the very midst of the THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY 351 city of Granada, being, as it were, an excrescence of the capital^it must at all times be somewhat irksome to the captain-general,who commands the province, to thus have an wiperiiDii i?iimperio^ a petty independent post in the very centre of hisdomains. It was rendered the more galling, in the presentinstance, from the irritable jealousy of the old governor, that i. 3
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