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extended to friends, acquaintances, and neighbors. Luncheons, teas, and dinners follow in quick succession, visits are interchanged, in fact the social life of Seville is for three days brought hither bodily and carried on with unwonted vigor and enthusiasm. At night we may see the life of the casillas at its best, for then they are illuminated, and then it is that daughters of the family dance—in full view of the public eye—the fascinating dances of Andalusia. The music of guitars and castanets, the laughter, lights, and youthful voices, attract and hold the passer-by. Curtains are not impolitely drawn, but instead, by tacit invitation, you and I or any other stranger may join the admiring group of delighted spectators that forms before the little house in which the Señoritas of the rich and titled families are dancing more
 * temporized in the rear. Then a delightful hospitality is