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 indigestion. Nor are we disappointed at the result of this unfriendly betrayal of our staid companion; he is at once marked as a newcomer, an unfilled receptacle for the surplus buñuelos! If our previous passing had been a troubled one, this time it is indeed tumultuous. A dozen times he is seized and held a prisoner; a score of women young, old, and middle-aged pursue, arrest, expostulate with, and, finally, noting his stony Boston stare, release him.

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"If these be Seville people," he exclaims, "I much prefer uncivil ones"; and this bad pun but proved to what a state of desperation he had been driven by his treatment here. At last he yields; enters a booth; his captors then become as gentle and polite as every damsel should be, and serve him graciously with chocolate and cakes; but when he strives to go, they make vain endeavors to retain him with winning smiles and a grip upon his coat-tails. Those who affirm that the Spanish people lack enterprise are referred to Dr.