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Katharine Lee Bates. In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael
In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael
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FOREWORD
IN SUNNY SPAIN
I. PILARICA IN THE MOORISH GARDEN
II. THE MAGIC CAP
III. FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES
IV. RAFAEL IN DISGRACE
V. A BEAUTIFUL FEVER
VI. HEROES AND DONKEYS
VII. THE GEOGRAPHY GENTLEMAN
VIII. ONLY A GIRL
IX. CHOSEN FOR THE KING
X. TIA MARTA’S REBELLION
XI. UP AND AWAY
XII. THE OPEN ROAD
XIII. THE CITY OF DREAMS
XIV. TRAVELING BY MULE-TRAIN
XV. THE EVE OF ST. JOHN
XVI. BY THE WAY
XVII. PILGRIMS OF ST. JAMES
XVIII. RAFAEL’S ADVENTURE
XIX. THE END OF THE ROAD
XX. THE TREE WITH TWELVE BRANCHES
XXI. WORK AND PLAY
XXII. THE PORCH OF PARADISE
LIST OF SPANISH WORDS, PRONOUNCED AND DEFINED
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Katharine Lee Bates
Published by Good Press, 2021
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THE eyes of the Gypsy King began to glitter like jet beads. He had caught sight of an omnibus toiling up the Alhambra hill, and after the first a second, and after the second a third. Tourists! A party of foreign tourists! A host of golden, gullible tourists! Ah, Xarifa would be pleased with him, after all. She would toss him off a panful of crisp fritters for supper and then sit with him in the mouth of their cave, enjoying all the gypsy jest and music. With surprising nimbleness he climbed to the top step of the fountain, and there he stood, brandishing his hat high above his head and bowing and beckoning and twisting and bowing again until Pilarica turned quite giddy just from watching him.
