unworthy
son with very particular attention, embracing him with great tenderness at parting (I was there but three days), after cutting off a lock of his hair, and presenting him with one of her own, about three feet in length, which I send, and beg you will retain till my return. Her last words were,
Adios, tu hermoso! me gusto mucho
— "Adieu, you pretty fellow! you please me much." She offered me a share of her apartment, which my
virtue
induced me to decline; she laughed, and said I had some English
amante
(lover), and added that she was going to be married to an officer in the Spanish army.
I left Seville, and rode on to Cadiz, through a beautiful country. At
Xeres