The Alhambra . A Moorish Mill. INHABITANTS OF THE ALHAMBRA I HAVE often observed that the more proudly a mansion hasbeen tenanted in the day of its prosperity, the humbler are itsinhabitants in the day of its decline, and that the palaceof a king commonly ends in being the nestling-place of thebeggar. The Alhambra is in a rapid state of similar a tower falls to decay, it is seized upon by sometatterdemalion family, who become joint-tenants, with the batsand owls, of its gilded halls; and hang their rags, those stand-ards of poverty, out of its windows and loopholes. I have
The Alhambra . A Moorish Mill. INHABITANTS OF THE ALHAMBRA I HAVE often observed that the more proudly a mansion hasbeen tenanted in the day of its prosperity, the humbler are itsinhabitants in the day of its decline, and that the palaceof a king commonly ends in being the nestling-place of thebeggar. The Alhambra is in a rapid state of similar a tower falls to decay, it is seized upon by sometatterdemalion family, who become joint-tenants, with the batsand owls, of its gilded halls; and hang their rags, those stand-ards of poverty, out of its windows and loopholes. I have amused myself with remarking some of the motleycharacters that have thus usurped the ancient abode of royalty,and who seem as if placed here to give a farcical terminationto the drama of human pride. One of these*even bears themockery of a regal title. It is a little old woman named MariaAntonia Sabonea, but who goes by the appellation of la ReyiiaCoquifia, or the Cockle-queen. She is small enough to be afairy
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