In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael

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Katharine Lee Bates. In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael

FOREWORD

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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AT last, at last, that tiresome stint of embroidery was done. The threads, no longer white, had tangled so often under the impatient tugs of those rosy little fingers that it was fully half an hour later than usual before Pilarica could jump up from the threshold, run back through the house to Tia Marta, display those finished three inches of “labors” and plead:

“Tia Marta, with your kind permission I will now go out to play.”

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But she did not take back the permission, and Pilarica had the rare delight of an excursion with Rafael outside the garden.

Half ashamed of his condescension, the boy did not spare her, but tore at his full speed along the dusty road, between giant hedges of aloes, with their blue, sworded leaves, and lances tipped with yellow blossoms, so that it was a very hot, panting little girl who arrived, hardly a minute behind him, at the fountain on whose steps was enthroned the Gypsy King.

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