Royal romances of to-day . a bull fight is not a pleasant thing to watch,T know, for I have seen several. At one which Iattended on the Day of Ascension (bull fights arealways held on Sundays and religious fete days)the killing of the six bulls was accompanied by theoutright killing of eleven horses and the maimingof four others, while one man was tossed high inthe air by a bull and two others hurt by theirhorses falling on them. The fourteen thousandspectators were delirious with delight and calledit a good bull fight. The young Queen remained in the Royal Boxthroughout the correda a
Royal romances of to-day . a bull fight is not a pleasant thing to watch,T know, for I have seen several. At one which Iattended on the Day of Ascension (bull fights arealways held on Sundays and religious fete days)the killing of the six bulls was accompanied by theoutright killing of eleven horses and the maimingof four others, while one man was tossed high inthe air by a bull and two others hurt by theirhorses falling on them. The fourteen thousandspectators were delirious with delight and calledit a good bull fight. The young Queen remained in the Royal Boxthroughout the correda and thus concluded her in-itiation into Queenship. The year following the marriage sped to a happyclose. The Queen grew increasingly the months went on, the shock of the weddingday drifted into a hideous memory, and the heartyenthusiasm of the Spanish people melted the some-what austere bearing which was native to her andshe began to return the cordial greetings of thepeople everywhere she went. Nowhere on earth. enPiM KO 1—I hJpq O o uo CmW H Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain 45 —not even in France—are beautiful women moreappreciated than in Spain, and Queen Victoria islovely to look upon. She is tall and of majesticbearing. She has an abundance of golden hairwhich she wears in long rich braids wound aboutthe back of her head and generally loosely dressedin front. She has eyes of a singularly clearblue and quite as sharp and twinkling as arethe Kings snapping brown eyes,—and his arefamous. Such exquisite colouring! is an exclamationfrequently heard concerning her. At nineteen shecombined all the freshness of youth with the dig-nity of maturity, and to-day, though she is threetimes a mother, she retains the high colour char-acteristic of English women, and set against aclear white skin. The first time I saw her close,her cheeks reminded me of charming porcelain—if it were not trite, I would say a bit of Dresden. With all her instinctive charm she has a geniusf
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