The Alhambra . fountains cooled the air, and bubbling rills ran alongthe channels of the marble pavement. In the evenings a domestic circle would gather about theworthy old cavalier. The countess, his wife by a second marriage, would comeup from the city ac-companied by herstep - daughter Car-men, an only child, a^- charming little being,still in her girlishyears. Then therewere always some ofhis official depend-ants, his chaplain, hislawyer, his secretary,his steward, and otherofficers and agents ofhis extensive posses-sions, who broughthim up the news orgossip of the city, andformed his even
The Alhambra . fountains cooled the air, and bubbling rills ran alongthe channels of the marble pavement. In the evenings a domestic circle would gather about theworthy old cavalier. The countess, his wife by a second marriage, would comeup from the city ac-companied by herstep - daughter Car-men, an only child, a^- charming little being,still in her girlishyears. Then therewere always some ofhis official depend-ants, his chaplain, hislawyer, his secretary,his steward, and otherofficers and agents ofhis extensive posses-sions, who broughthim up the news orgossip of the city, andformed his eveningparty of tresillo or07nb7-e. Thus he helda kind of domesticcourt, where each one paid him deference, and sought tocontribute to his amusement, without, however, any appear-ance of servility, or any sacrifice of self-respect. In fact,nothing of the kind was exacted by the demeanour of thecount; for whatever may be said of Spanish pride, it rarelychills or constrains the intercourse of social or domestic ^- ^If
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