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Rh whole, the effect is creditable. We do not seem sufficiently aware of the beauty of uniformity, or else it is interfered with by our personal vanity. The truth is, that general taste is always good; because, before it becomes general, it has been compared and corrected: but as for individual taste, the less we have of it the better. The arrival of a stranger produced the effect it always does where such an occurrence is rare. Novelty is pleasure, and pleasure puts people into a good humour. All were ready to crowd round with some little offer of assistance; and when it was discovered that he spoke Spanish, their delight knew no bounds. People take a traveller's understanding their language as a personal compliment. Edward, besides, was very handsome—a letter of recommendation all the world over; and he possessed that fascination of manner, the secret of whose fairy gift is, ready adaptation of itself to others.

Both himself and his horse fared exceedingly well. One gave him green figs, another oranges: the grapes were yet scarcely ripe; but a little boy, who seemed just to have stepped out of a picture by Murillo, climbed the roof of his father's cottage, and brought from the