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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: repeated to him all the Pentecost of Manzoni, which threw him into ecstasies; he recited to me a poem of the celebrated Luis de Leon, a writer of religious poetry in the sixteenth century; so we became friends. When we reached Zoera, the last station but one before arriving at Saragossa, he rose, bowed to me, and, with his foot on the step, suddenly turned and whispered in my ear: Be prudent with the women, for they lead to evil consequences in Spain. Then he got down and stopped to see the train start, and raising his hand in sign of paternal admonition, he said once more: Be prudent I reached Saragossa late at night, and in getting out of the train I was instantly struck with the peculiar cadence with which the porters, coachmen and boys were speaking as they disputed over my valise. In Arragon it may be said that the Castilian is spoken even by the most ordinary people, although with some defects and some rudeness, but to the Spaniard of the Castiles a half word is sufficient for the recognition of the Arragonese, and then: is no Castilian, in fact, who does not know how to imitate that accent and ridicule it occasionally for what is rough and monotonous in it, almost as they do in Tuscany with the Lucca manner of speaking. I entered the city with a certain feeling of tremulous reverence; the terrible fame of Saragossa had its effect upon me; my conscience almost pricked me for having so many times profaned its name in the school of rhetoric, when I cast it, as a challenge, in the faces of tyrants. The streets were dark; I could only see the black outlines of the roofs and the bell towers against the starry sky, and I only heard the sound of the hotel omnibuses as they were movingoff. At certain turns of the street I seemed to see daggers and gun-stocks glea...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217054911 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217054919 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $21.05 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 248 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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