[142] Watch Tower.
[143] The handsome.
[144] Florez—España Sagrada.
[145] From the Arabic word suk, a place of sale.
[146] Dost thou know me?
[147] The husband of this lady was at the time of which I write, as he has lately again been, Prime Minister of Spain. Though universally admitted to be a man of great talent, his views are considered too “confined” for “the circumstances of the country;” and he has each time been obliged to make way for more “stirring men.”
[148] I have already warned my readers, that in publishing the journal of my various wanderings, it did not form part of my plan to specify dates with any precision. I should perhaps state, however, that it was not on the occasion of my first visit to Granada that I saw the Marquis of Montijo, nor, indeed, do I think he had then retired from public life. But, at all events, if his so doing be considered a matter of history, it is so unimportant a one, as to excuse my here describing him eight or ten years older, and much more infirm, than he really was at the time of which I write.
[149] War to the knife.
[150] I certainly am right in calling the old lady governor, since we pray in our churches for “our most gracious queen and governor.”
[151] St. James; the patron saint of Spain.