ders t so invite any of her young friends whom she

    liked to come and amuse tately

    grace about t, the

    boys s and s fluttering cloaks, the

    girls rains of their long brocaded gowns, and

    sh huge fans of black and

    silver.  But ta  graceful of all, and t

    tastefully attired, after t cumbrous fashe day.

    in, t and the wide puffed sleeves

    iff corset studded h

    roiny slippers tes

    peeped out beneath her dress as she walked.  Pink and pearl was her

    great gauze fan, and in her hair, which like an aureole of faded

    gold stood out stiffly round tle face, she had a

    beautiful we rose.

    From a chem.

    Beood ed,

    and or of Granada, sat by his

    side.  Sadder even t the

    Infanta boy to ters, or

    laug the grim Duchess of Albuquerque who

    alher,

    ime before - so it seemed to him - had come from

    try of France, and he sombre

    splendour of t, dying just six monter the

    birthe almonds blossom

    t from the

    old gnarled fig-tree t stood in tre of the now grass-

    groyard.  So great  he had

    not suffered even to hide her from him.  She had been

    embalmed by a Moorisurn for this service had

    been granted his life, which for heresy and suspicion of magical

    practices ed, men said, to the holy Office,

    and ill lying on its tapestried bier in the black

    marble c as the monks had borne her in on