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Spanish music, Spanish oaths and exclamations, twanging guitars and clacking castanets.

POSING

But now the day is waning, and city-*ward the crowd departs—to dine, to dress, and to return anon by night through the gay illuminated streets, where beneath arches of glowing gas-jets moves a river of humanity.

A PYRAMID OF LANTERNS

Till late we wander from street to street and from park to garden, discovering everywhere a happy population, enjoying with a Latin zest the greatest fête of the Andalusian year. We watch the daughters of Seville's proudest families dance on the terraces of their casillas; from