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 significance, for all Seville is here to look and be looked upon in turn. The stately carriage of Seville's most honored lady passes and repasses us. In it we see the Duchess of Montpensier, sister of the ex-Queen of Spain and widow of the son of Louis Philippe, King of the French. With her, as guests of honor we frequently behold the Countess of Paris and her son the young Pretender to the throne of France, the Duke of Orleans. He does not seem to bear his exile heavily, but rather to enjoy wearing good clothes, setting the styles for aping Spanish swells, attending races, bull-fights, and the like.

WOOLLY ACRES

Paralleling the driveway is on either side a broad promenade, up and down which at certain hours of the day and far into the night the gaily dressed and animated throng is passing. Here we shall see the fairest of fair Seville's daughters in their new spring frocks; two sisters dressed