Volume VI Part 27 (2/2)
A furious revolution, a terrible shock, a conquest of regeneration; your case is past gentle methods, it needs the cautery and the fire
The first call I paid was on Donna Pelliccia The first perforiven in two days This was not a matter of any difficulty, as the same operas were to be presented as had been already played at Aranjuez, the Escurial, and the Granja, for the Count of Aranda would never have dared to sanction the performance of an Italian coreat, and the Inquisition would have interfered
The balls were a considerable shock, and two years after they were suppressed Spain will never make any real advance, until the Inquisition is suppressed also
As soon as Donna Pelliccia arrived, she sent in the letter of introduction she had received from the Duke of Arcos, threeat Aranjuez
”Madao, the person to whom she was commended, ”I have come to offer you race has laid on norant”
”I hope, sir,” she replied, ”that I arateful to the duke and to yourself; and I shall have the honour of calling on you to give you my thanks”
”Not at all; I have only to say that I have orders to furnish you with any sums you may require, to the amount of twenty-five thousand doubloons”
”Twenty-five thousand doubloons?”
”Exactly, madam, two hundred and fifty thousand francs in French race's letter; you do not seem to be aware of its contents”
The letter was a brief one:
”Don Diego,--You will furnish Donna Pelliccia hatever su twenty-five thousand doubloons, at my account
”THE DUKE DOS ARCOS”
We remained in a state of perfect stupefaction Donna Pelliccia returned the epistle to the banker, who bowed and took his leave
This sounds als are not uncoift of Medina-Celi to Madame Pichona
Those who are unacquainted with the peculiar Spanish character and the vast riches of soenerosity to be ridiculous and positively injurious, but they ives and squanders by a kind of instinct, and so he will continue to do as long as his ifts I have described do not coality The Spaniard is chiefly a; but this very desire for admiration serves to restrain him froht superior to his fellows, as the Spanish nation is superior to all other nations; he wants to be thought worthy of a throne, and to be considered as the possessor of all the virtues
I may also note that while solish lords, the for their enerous on occasion
As soon as Don Diego had gone, we began to discuss the duke's noble behaviour
Donna Pelliccia maintained that the duke had wished to shew his confidence in her by doing her the honour of supposing her incapable of abusing his generosity; ”at all events,” she concluded, ”I would rather die of hunger than take a single doubloon of Don Diego”
”The duke would be offended,” said a violinist; ”I think you ought to take so”
”You must take it all,” said the husband
I was of the lady's opinion, and told her that I was sure the duke would reward her delicacy byher fortune
She followed h the banker remonstrated with her