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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of +the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + + + +Title: John Bull on the Guadalquivir + + +Author: Anthony Trollope + + + +Release Date: January 16, 2015 [eBook #3615] +[This file was first posted on June 15, 2001] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN BULL ON THE GUADALQUIVIR*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1864 Chapman and Hall “Tales from +all Countries” edition by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>JOHN BULL ON THE GUADALQUIVIR.</h1> +<p>I <span class="smcap">am</span> an Englishman, living, as all +Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not, I think, +be well pleased were any one to insinuate that she were other +than an Englishwoman; but in the circumstances of my marriage I +became connected with the south of Spain, and the narrative which +I am to tell requires that I should refer to some of those +details.</p> +<p>The Pomfrets and Daguilars have long been in trade together in +this country, and one of the partners has usually resided at +Seville for the sake of the works which the firm there +possesses. My father, James Pomfret, lived there for ten +years before his marriage; and since that and up to the present +period, old Mr. Daguilar has always been on the spot. He +was, I believe, born in Spain, but he came very early to England; +he married an English wife, and his sons had been educated +exclusively in England. His only daughter, Maria Daguilar, +did not pass so large a proportion of her early life in this +country, but she came to us for a visit at the age of seventeen, +and when she returned I made up my mind that I most assuredly +would go after her. So I did, and she is now sitting on the +other side of the fireplace with a legion of small linen +habiliments in a huge basket by her side.</p> +<p>I felt, at the first, that there was something lacking to make +my cup of love perfectly delightful. It was very sweet, but +there was wanting that flower of romance which is generally added +to the heavenly draught by a slight admixture of +opposition. I feared that the path of my true love would +run too smooth. When Maria came to our house, my mother and +elder sister seemed to be quite willing that I should be +continually alone with her; and she had not been there ten days +before my father, by chance, remarked that there was nothing old +Mr. Daguilar valued so highly as a thorough feeling of intimate +alliance between the two families which had been so long +connected in trade. I was never told that Maria was to be +my wife, but I felt that the same thing was done without words; +and when, after six weeks of somewhat elaborate attendance upon +her, I asked her to be Mrs. John Pomfret, I had no more fear of a +refusal, or even of hesitation on her part, than I now have when +I suggest to my partner some commercial transaction of undoubted +advantage.</p> +<p>But Maria, even at that age, had about her a quiet sustained +decision of character quite unlike anything I had seen in English +girls. I used to hear, and do still hear, how much more +flippant is the education of girls in France and Spain than in +England; and I know that this is shown to be the result of many +causes—the Roman Catholic religion being, perhaps, chief +offender; but, nevertheless, I rarely see in one of our own young +women the same power of a self-sustained demeanour as I meet on +the Continent. It goes no deeper than the demeanour, people +say. I can only answer that I have not found that +shallowness in my own wife.</p> +<p>Miss Daguilar replied to me that she was not prepared with an +answer; she had only known me six weeks, and wanted more time to +think about it; besides, there was one in her own country with +whom she would wish to consult. I knew she had no mother; +and as for consulting old Mr. Daguilar on such a subject, that +idea, I knew, could not have troubled her. Besides, as I +afterwards learned, Mr. Daguilar had already proposed the +marriage to his partner exactly as he would have proposed a +division of assets. My mother declared that Maria was a +foolish chit—in which by-the-bye she showed her entire +ignorance of Miss Daguilar’s character; my eldest sister +begged that no constraint might he put on the young lady’s +inclinations—which provoked me to assert that the young +lady’s inclinations were by no means opposed to my own; and +my father, in the coolest manner suggested that the matter might +stand over for twelve months, and that I might then go to +Seville, and see about it! Stand over for twelve +months! Would not Maria, long before that time, have been +snapped up and carried off by one of those inordinately rich +Spanish grandees who are still to be met with occasionally in +Andalucia?</p> +<p>My father’s dictum, however, had gone forth; and Maria, +in the calmest voice, protested that she thought it very +wise. I should be less of a boy by that time, she said, +smiling on me, but driving wedges between every fibre of my body +as she spoke. “Be it so,” I said, +proudly. “At any rate, I am not so much of a boy that +I shall forget you.” “And, John, you still have +the trade to learn,” she added, with her deliciously +foreign intonation—speaking very slowly, but with perfect +pronunciation. The trade to learn! However, I said +not a word, but stalked out of the room, meaning to see her no +more before she went. But I could not resist attending on +her in the hall as she started; and, when she took leave of us, +she put her face up to be kissed by me, as she did by my father, +and seemed to receive as much emotion from one embrace as from +the other. “He’ll go out by the packet of the +1st April,” said my father, speaking of me as though I were +a bale of goods. “Ah! that will be so nice,” +said Maria, settling her dress in the carriage; “the +oranges will be ripe for him then!”</p> +<p>On the 17th April I did sail, and felt still very like a bale +of goods. I had received one letter from her, in which she +merely stated that her papa would have a room ready for me on my +arrival; and, in answer to that, I had sent an epistle somewhat +longer, and, as I then thought, a little more to the +purpose. Her turn of mind was more practical than mine, and +I must confess my belief that she did not appreciate my +poetry.</p> +<p>I landed at Cadiz, and was there joined by an old family +friend, one of the very best fellows that ever lived. He +was to accompany me up as far as Seville; and, as he had lived +for a year or two at Xeres, was supposed to be more Spanish +almost than a Spaniard. His name was Johnson, and he was in +the wine trade; and whether for travelling or whether for staying +at home—whether for paying you a visit in your own house, +or whether for entertaining you in his—there never was (and +I am prepared to maintain there never will be) a stancher friend, +choicer companion, or a safer guide than Thomas Johnson. +Words cannot produce a eulogium sufficient for his merits. +But, as I have since learned, he was not quite so Spanish as I +had imagined. Three years among the bodegas of Xeres had +taught him, no doubt, to appreciate the exact twang of a good, +dry sherry; but not, as I now conceive, the exactest flavour of +the true Spanish character. I was very lucky, however, in +meeting such a friend, and now reckon him as one of the stanchest +allies of the house of Pomfret, Daguilar, and Pomfret.</p> +<p>He met me at Cadiz, took me about the town, which appeared to +me to be of no very great interest;—though the young ladies +were all very well. But, in this respect, I was then a +Stoic, till such time as I might be able to throw myself at the +feet of her whom I was ready to proclaim the most lovely of all +the Dulcineas of Andalucia. He carried me up by boat and +railway to Xeres; gave me a most terrific headache, by dragging +me out into the glare of the sun, after I had tasted some half a +dozen different wines, and went through all the ordinary +hospitalities. On the next day we returned to Puerto, and +from thence getting across to St. Lucar and Bonanza, found +ourselves on the banks of the Guadalquivir, and took our places +in the boat for Seville. I need say but little to my +readers respecting that far-famed river. Thirty years ago +we in England generally believed that on its banks was to be +found a pure elysium of pastoral beauty; that picturesque +shepherds and lovely maidens here fed their flocks in fields of +asphodel; that the limpid stream ran cool and crystal over bright +stones and beneath perennial shade; and that every thing on the +Guadalquivir was as lovely and as poetical as its name. +Now, it is pretty widely known that no uglier river oozes down to +its bourn in the sea through unwholesome banks of low mud. +It is brown and dirty; ungifted by any scenic advantage; margined +for miles upon miles by huge, flat, expansive fields, in which +cattle are reared,—the bulls wanted for the bullfights +among other; and birds of prey sit constant on the shore, +watching for the carcases of such as die. Such are the +charms of the golden Guadalquivir.</p> +<p>At first we were very dull on board that steamer. I +never found myself in a position in which there was less to +do. There was a nasty smell about the little boat which +made me almost ill; every turn in the river was so exactly like +the last, that we might have been standing still; there was no +amusement except eating, and that, when once done, was not of a +kind to make an early repetition desirable. Even Johnson +was becoming dull, and I began to doubt whether I was so desirous +as I once had been to travel the length and breadth of all +Spain. But about noon a little incident occurred which did +for a time remove some of our tedium. The boat had stopped +to take in passengers on the river; and, among others, a man had +come on board dressed in a fashion that, to my eyes, was equally +strange and picturesque. Indeed, his appearance was so +singular, that I could not but regard him with care, though I +felt at first averse to stare at a fellow-passenger on account of +his clothes. He was a man of about fifty, but as active +apparently as though not more than twenty five; he was of low +stature, but of admirable make; his hair was just becoming +grizzled, but was short and crisp and well cared for; his face +was prepossessing, having a look of good humour added to +courtesy, and there was a pleasant, soft smile round his mouth +which ingratiated one at the first sight. But it was his +dress rather than his person which attracted attention. He +wore the ordinary Andalucian cap—of which such hideous +parodies are now making themselves common in England—but +was not contented with the usual ornament of the double +tuft. The cap was small, and jaunty; trimmed with silk +velvet—as is common here with men careful to adorn their +persons; but this man’s cap was finished off with a +jewelled button and golden filigree work. He was dressed in +a short jacket with a stand up collar; and that also was covered +with golden buttons and with golden button-holes. It was +all gilt down the front, and all lace down the back. The +rows of buttons were double; and those of the more backward row +hung down in heavy pendules. His waistcoat was of coloured +silk—very pretty to look at; and ornamented with a small +sash, through which gold threads were worked. All the +buttons of his breeches also were of gold; and there were gold +tags to all the button-holes. His stockings were of the +finest silk, and clocked with gold from the knee to the +ankle.</p> +<p>Dress any Englishman in such a garb and he will at once give +you the idea of a hog in armour. In the first place he will +lack the proper spirit to carry it off, and in the next place the +motion of his limbs will disgrace the ornaments they bear. +“And so best,” most Englishmen will say. Very +likely; and, therefore, let no Englishman try it. But my +Spaniard did not look at like a hog in armour. He walked +slowly down the plank into the boat, whistling lowly but very +clearly a few bars from a opera tune. It was plain to see +that he was master of himself, of his ornaments, and of his +limbs. He had no appearance of thinking that men were +looking at him, or of feeling that he was beauteous in his +attire;—nothing could be more natural than his foot-fall, +or the quiet glance of his cheery gray eye. He walked up to +the captain, who held the helm, and lightly raised his hand to +his cap. The captain, taking one hand from the wheel, did +the same, and then the stranger, turning his back to the stern of +the vessel, and fronting down the river with his face, continued +to whistle slowly, clearly, and in excellent time. Grand as +were his clothes they were no burden on his mind.</p> +<p>“What is he?” said I, going up to my friend +Johnson with a whisper.</p> +<p>“Well, I’ve been looking at him,” said +Johnson—which was true enough; “he’s a — +an uncommonly good-looking fellow, isn’t he?”</p> +<p>“Particularly so,” said I; “and got up quite +irrespective of expense. Is he a—a—a gentleman, +now, do you think?”</p> +<p>“Well, those things are so different in Spain that +it’s almost impossible to make an Englishman understand +them. One learns to know all this sort of people by being +with them in the country, but one can’t explain.”</p> +<p>“No; exactly. Are they real gold?”</p> +<p>“Yes, yes; I dare say they are. They sometimes +have them silver gilt.”</p> +<p>“It is quite a common thing, then, isn’t +it?” asked I.</p> +<p>“Well, not exactly; that—Ah! yes; I see! of +course. He is a torero.”</p> +<p>“A what?”</p> +<p>“A mayo. I will explain it all to you. You +will see them about in all places, and you will get used to +them.”</p> +<p>“But I haven’t seen one other as yet.”</p> +<p>“No, and they are not all so gay as this, nor so new in +their finery, you know.”</p> +<p>“And what is a torero?”</p> +<p>“Well, a torero is a man engaged in +bull-fighting.”</p> +<p>“Oh! he is a matador, is he?” said I, looking at +him with more than all my eyes.</p> +<p>“No, not exactly that;—not of necessity. He +is probably a mayo. A fellow that dresses himself smart for +fairs, and will be seen hanging about with the +bull-fighters. What would be a sporting fellow in +England—only he won’t drink and curse like a low man +on the turf there. Come, shall we go and speak to +him?”</p> +<p>“I can’t talk to him,” said I, diffident of +my Spanish. I had received lessons in England from Maria +Daguilar; but six weeks is little enough for making love, let +alone the learning of a foreign language.</p> +<p>“Oh! I’ll do the talking. You’ll +find the language easy enough before long. It soon becomes +the same as English to you, when you live among +them.” And then Johnson, walking up to the stranger, +accosted him with that good-natured familiarity with which a +thoroughly nice fellow always opens a conversation with his +inferior. Of course I could not understand the words which +were exchanged; but it was clear enough that the +“mayo” took the address in good part, and was +inclined to be communicative and social.</p> +<p>“They are all of pure gold,” said Johnson, turning +to me after a minute, making as he spoke a motion with his head +to show the importance of the information.</p> +<p>“Are they indeed?” said I. “Where on +earth did a fellow like that get them?” Whereupon +Johnson again returned to his conversation with the man. +After another minute he raised his hand, and began to finger the +button on the shoulder; and to aid him in doing so, the man of +the bull-ring turned a little on one side.</p> +<p>“They are wonderfully well made,” said Johnson, +talking to me, and still fingering the button. “They +are manufactured, he says, at Osuna, and he tells me that they +make them better there than anywhere else.”</p> +<p>“I wonder what the whole set would cost?” said +I. “An enormous deal of money for a fellow like him, +I should think!”</p> +<p>“Over twelve ounces,” said Johnson, having asked +the question; “and that will be more than forty +pounds.”</p> +<p>“What an uncommon ass he must be!” said I.</p> +<p>As Johnson by this time was very closely scrutinising the +whole set of ornaments I thought I might do so also, and going up +close to our friend, I too began to handle the buttons and tags +on the other side. Nothing could have been more +good-humoured than he was—so much so that I was emboldened +to hold up his arm that I might see the cut of his coat, to take +off his cap and examine the make, to stuff my finger in beneath +his sash, and at last to kneel down while I persuaded him to hold +up his legs that I might look to the clocking. The fellow +was thorough good-natured, and why should I not indulge my +curiosity?</p> +<p>“You’ll upset him if you don’t take +care,” said Johnson; for I had got fast hold of him by one +ankle, and was determined to finish the survey completely.</p> +<p>“Oh, no, I shan’t,” said I; “a +bull-fighting chap can surely stand on one leg. But what I +wonder at is, how on earth he can afford it!” +Whereupon Johnson again began to interrogate him in Spanish.</p> +<p>“He says he has got no children,” said Johnson, +having received a reply, “and that as he has nobody but +himself to look after, he is able to allow himself such little +luxuries.”</p> +<p>“Tell him that I say he would be better with a wife and +couple of babies,” said I—and Johnson +interpreted.</p> +<p>“He says that he’ll think of it some of these +days, when he finds that the supply of fools in the world is +becoming short,” said Johnson.</p> +<p>We had nearly done with him now; but after regaining my feet, +I addressed myself once more to the heavy pendules, which hung +down almost under his arm. I lifted one of these, meaning +to feel its weight between my fingers; but unfortunately I gave a +lurch, probably through the motion of the boat, and still holding +by the button, tore it almost off from our friend’s +coat.</p> +<p>“Oh, I am so sorry,” I said, in broad English.</p> +<p>“It do not matter at all,” he said, bowing, and +speaking with equal plainness. And then, taking a knife +from his pocket, he cut the pendule off, leaving a bit of torn +cloth on the side of his jacket.</p> +<p>“Upon my word, I am quite unhappy,” said I; +“but I always am so awkward.” Whereupon he +bowed low.</p> +<p>“Couldn’t I make it right?” said I, bringing +out my purse.</p> +<p>He lifted his hand, and I saw that it was small and white; he +lifted it and gently put it upon my purse, smiling sweetly as he +did so. “Thank you, no, señor; thank you, +no.” And then, bowing to us both, he walked away down +into the cabin.</p> +<p>“Upon my word he is a deuced well-mannered +fellow,” said I.</p> +<p>“You shouldn’t have offered him money,” said +Johnson; “a Spaniard does not like it.”</p> +<p>“Why, I thought you could do nothing without money in +this country. Doesn’t every one take +bribes?”</p> +<p>“Ah! yes; that is a different thing; but not the price +of a button. By Jove! he understood English, too. Did +you see that?”</p> +<p>“Yes; and I called him an ass! I hope he +doesn’t mind it.”</p> +<p>“Oh! no; he won’t think anything about it,” +said Johnson. “That sort of fellows +don’t. I dare say we shall see him in the bull-ring +next Sunday, and then we’ll make all right with a glass of +lemonade.”</p> +<p>And so our adventure ended with the man of the gold +ornaments. I was sorry that I had spoken English before him +so heedlessly, and resolved that I would never be guilty of such +gaucherie again. But, then, who would think that a Spanish +bull-fighter would talk a foreign language? I was sorry, +also, that I had torn his coat; it had looked so awkward; and +sorry again that I had offered the man money. Altogether I +was a little ashamed of myself; but I had too much to look +forward to at Seville to allow any heaviness to remain long at my +heart; and before I had arrived at the marvellous city I had +forgotten both him and his buttons.</p> +<p>Nothing could be nicer than the way in which I was welcomed at +Mr. Daguilar’s house, or more kind—I may almost say +affectionate—than Maria’s manner to me. But it +was too affectionate; and I am not sure that I should not have +liked my reception better had she been more diffident in her +tone, and less inclined to greet me with open warmth. As it +was, she again gave me her cheek to kiss, in her father’s +presence, and called me dear John, and asked me specially after +some rabbits which I had kept at home merely for a younger +sister; and then it seemed as though she were in no way +embarrassed by the peculiar circumstances of our position. +Twelve months since I had asked her to be my wife, and now she +was to give me an answer; and yet she was as assured in her gait, +and as serenely joyous in her tone, as though I were a brother +just returned from college. It could not be that she meant +to refuse me, or she would not smile on me and be so loving; but +I could almost have found it in my heart to wish that she +would. “It is quite possible,” said I to +myself, “that I may not be found so ready for this family +bargain. A love that is to be had like a bale of goods is +not exactly the love to suit my taste.” But then, +when I met her again in the morning I could no more have +quarrelled with her than I could have flown.</p> +<p>I was inexpressibly charmed with the whole city, and +especially with the house in which Mr. Daguilar lived. It +opened from the corner of a narrow, unfrequented street—a +corner like an elbow—and, as seen from the exterior, there +was nothing prepossessing to recommend it; but the outer door led +by a short hall or passage to an inner door or grille, made of +open ornamental iron-work, and through that we entered a court, +or patio, as they I called it. Nothing could be more lovely +or deliciously cool than was this small court. The building +on each side was covered by trellis-work; and beautiful creepers, +vines, and parasite flowers, now in the full magnificence of the +early summer, grew up and clustered round the windows. +Every inch of wall was covered, so that none of the glaring +whitewash wounded the eye. In the four corners of the patio +were four large orange-trees, covered with fruit. I would +not say a word in special praise of these, remembering that +childish promise she had made on my behalf. In the middle +of the court there was a fountain, and round about on the marble +floor there were chairs, and here and there a small table, as +though the space were really a portion of the house. It was +here that we used to take our cup of coffee and smoke our +cigarettes, I and old Mr. Daguilar, while Maria sat by, not only +approving, but occasionally rolling for me the thin paper round +the fragrant weed with her taper fingers. Beyond the patio +was an open passage or gallery, filled also with flowers in pots; +and then, beyond this, one entered the drawing-room of the +house. It was by no means a princely palace or mansion, fit +for the owner of untold wealth. The rooms were not over +large nor very numerous; but the most had been made of a small +space, and everything had been done to relieve the heat of an +almost tropical sun.</p> +<p>“It is pretty, is it not?” she said, as she took +me through it.</p> +<p>“Very pretty,” I said. “I wish we +could live in such houses.”</p> +<p>“Oh, they would not do at all for dear old fat, cold, +cozy England. You are quite different, you know, in +everything from us in the south; more phlegmatic, but then so +much steadier. The men and the houses are all the +same.”</p> +<p>I can hardly tell why, but even this wounded me. It +seemed to me as though she were inclined to put into one and the +same category things English, dull, useful, and solid; and that +she was disposed to show a sufficient appreciation for such +necessaries of life, though she herself had another and inner +sense—a sense keenly alive to the poetry of her own +southern chime; and that I, as being English, was to have no +participation in this latter charm. An English husband +might do very well, the interests of the firm might make such an +arrangement desirable, such a mariage de convenance—so I +argued to myself—might be quite compatible with—with +heaven only knows what delights of superterrestial romance, from +which I, as being an English thick-headed lump of useful coarse +mortality, was to be altogether debarred. She had spoken to +me of oranges, and having finished the survey of the house, she +offered me some sweet little cakes. It could not be that of +such things were the thoughts which lay undivulged beneath the +clear waters of those deep black eyes—undivulged to me, +though no one else could have so good a right to read those +thoughts! It could not be that that noble brow gave index +of a mind intent on the trade of which she spoke so often! +Words of other sort than any that had been vouchsafed to me must +fall at times from the rich curves of that perfect month.</p> +<p>So felt I then, pining for something to make me unhappy. +Ah, me! I know all about it now, and am content. But +I wish that some learned pundit would give us a good definition +of romance, would describe in words that feeling with which our +hearts are so pestered when we are young, which makes us sigh for +we know not what, and forbids us to be contented with what God +sends us. We invest female beauty with impossible +attributes, and are angry because our women have not the +spiritualised souls of angels, anxious as we are that they should +also be human in the flesh. A man looks at her he would +love as at a distant landscape in a mountainous land. The +peaks are glorious with more than the beauty of earth and rock +and vegetation. He dreams of some mysterious grandeur of +design which tempts him on under the hot sun, and over the sharp +rock, till he has reached the mountain goal which he had set +before him. But when there, he finds that the beauty is +well-nigh gone, and as for that delicious mystery on which his +soul had fed, it has vanished for ever.</p> +<p>I know all about it now, and am, as I said, content. +Beneath those deep black eyes there lay a well of love, good, +honest, homely love, love of father and husband and children that +were to come—of that love which loves to see the loved ones +prospering in honesty. That noble brow—for it is +noble; I am unchanged in that opinion, and will go unchanged to +my grave—covers thoughts as to the welfare of many, and an +intellect fitted to the management of a household, of servants, +namely, and children, and perchance a husband. That mouth +can speak words of wisdom, of very useful wisdom—though of +poetry it has latterly uttered little that was original. +Poetry and romance! They are splendid mountain views seen +in the distance. So let men be content to see them, and not +attempt to tread upon the fallacious heather of the mystic +hills.</p> +<p>In the first week of my sojourn in Seville I spoke no word of +overt love to Maria, thinking, as I confess, to induce her +thereby to alter her mode of conduct to myself. “She +knows that I have come here to make love to her—to repeat +my offer; and she will at any rate be chagrined if I am slow to +do so.” But it had no effect. At home my mother +was rather particular about her table, and Maria’s greatest +efforts seemed to be used in giving me as nice dinners as we gave +her. In those days I did not care a straw about my dinner, +and so I took an opportunity of telling her. “Dear +me,” said she, looking at me almost with grief, “do +you not? What a pity! And do you not like music +either.” “Oh, yes, I adore it,” I +replied. I felt sure at the time that had I been born in +her own sunny clime, she would never have talked to me about +eating. But that was my mistake.</p> +<p>I used to walk out with her about the city, seeing all that is +there of beauty and magnificence. And in what city is there +more that is worth the seeing? At first this was very +delightful to me, for I felt that I was blessed with a privilege +that would not be granted to any other man. But its value +soon fell in my eyes, for others would accost her, and walk on +the other side, talking to her in Spanish, as though I hardly +existed, or were a servant there for her protection. And I +was not allowed to take her arm, and thus to appropriate her, as +I should have done in England. “No, John,” she +said, with the sweetest, prettiest smile, “we don’t +do that here; only when people are married.” And she +made this allusion to married life out, openly, with no slightest +tremor on her tongue.</p> +<p>“Oh, I beg pardon,” said I, drawing back my hand, +and feeling angry with myself for not being fully acquainted with +all the customs of a foreign country.</p> +<p>“You need not beg pardon,” said she; “when +we were in England we always walked so. It is just a +custom, you know.” And then I saw her drop her large +dark eyes to the ground, and bow gracefully in answer to some +salute.</p> +<p>I looked round, and saw that we had been joined by a young +cavalier,—a Spanish nobleman, as I saw at once; a man with +jet black hair, and a straight nose, and a black moustache, and +patent leather boots, very slim and very tall, and—though I +would not confess it then—uncommonly handsome. I +myself am inclined to be stout, my hair is light, my nose broad, +I have no hair on my upper lip, and my whiskers are rough and +uneven. “I could punch your head though, my fine +fellow,” said I to myself, when I saw that he placed +himself at Maria’s side, “and think very little of +the achievement.”</p> +<p>The wretch went on with us round the plaza for some quarter of +an hour talking Spanish with the greatest fluency, and she was +every whit as fluent. Of course I could not understand a +word that they said. Of all positions that a man can +occupy, I think that that is about the most uncomfortable; and I +cannot say that, even up to this day, I have quite forgiven her +for that quarter of an hour.</p> +<p>“I shall go in,” said I, unable to bear my +feelings, and preparing to leave her. “The heat is +unendurable.”</p> +<p>“Oh dear, John, why did you not speak before?” she +answered. “You cannot leave me here, you know, as I +am in your charge; but I will go with you almost +directly.” And then she finished her conversation +with the Spaniard, speaking with an animation she had never +displayed in her conversations with me.</p> +<p>It had been agreed between us for two or three days before +this, that we were to rise early on the following morning for the +sake of ascending the tower of the cathedral, and visiting the +Giralda, as the iron figure is called, which turns upon a pivot +on the extreme summit. We had often wandered together up +and down the long dark gloomy aisle of the stupendous building, +and had, together, seen its treasury of art; but as yet we had +not performed the task which has to be achieved by all visitors +to Seville; and in order that we might have a clear view over the +surrounding country, and not be tormented by the heat of an +advanced sun, we had settled that we would ascend the Giralda +before breakfast.</p> +<p>And now, as I walked away from the plaza towards Mr. +Daguilar’s house, with Maria by my side, I made up my mind +that I would settle my business during this visit to the +cathedral. Yes, and I would so manage the settlement that +there should be no doubt left as to my intentions and my own +ideas. I would not be guilty of shilly-shally conduct; I +would tell her frankly what I felt and what I thought, and would +make her understand that I did not desire her hand if I could not +have her heart. I did not value the kindness of her manner, +seeing that that kindness sprung from indifference rather than +passion; and so I would declare to her. And I would ask +her, also, who was this young man with whom she was +intimate—for whom all her volubility and energy of tone +seemed to be employed? She had told me once that it behoved +her to consult a friend in Seville as to the expediency of her +marriage with me. Was this the friend whom she had wished +to consult? If so, she need not trouble herself. +Under such circumstances I should decline the connection! +And I resolved that I would find out how this might be. A +man who proposes to take a woman to his bosom as his wife, has a +right to ask for information—ay, and to receive it +too. It flashed upon my mind at this moment that Donna +Maria was well enough inclined to come to me as my wife, but +—. I could hardly define the “buts” to +myself, for there were three or four of them. Why did she +always speak to me in a tone of childish affection, as though I +were a schoolboy home for the holidays? I would have all +this out with her on the tower on the following morning, standing +under the Giralda.</p> +<p>On that morning we met together in the patio, soon after five +o’clock, and started for the cathedral. She looked +beautiful, with her black mantilla over her head, and with black +gloves on, and her black morning silk dress—beautiful, +composed, and at her ease, as though she were well satisfied to +undertake this early morning walk from feelings of good +nature—sustained, probably, by some under-current of a +deeper sentiment. Well; I would know all about it before I +returned to her father’s house.</p> +<p>There hardly stands, as I think, on the earth, a building more +remarkable than the cathedral of Seville, and hardly one more +grand. Its enormous size; its gloom and darkness; the +richness of ornamentation in the details, contrasted with the +severe simplicity of the larger outlines; the variety of its +architecture; the glory of its paintings; and the wondrous +splendour of its metallic decoration, its altar-friezes, screens, +rails, gates, and the like, render it, to my mind, the first in +interest among churches. It has not the coloured glass of +Chartres, or the marble glory of Milan, or such a forest of +aisles as Antwerp, or so perfect a hue in stone as Westminster, +nor in mixed beauty of form and colour does it possess anything +equal to the choir of Cologne; but, for combined magnificence and +awe-compelling grandeur, I regard it as superior to all other +ecclesiastical edifices.</p> +<p>It is its deep gloom with which the stranger is so greatly +struck on his first entrance. In a region so hot as the +south of Spain, a cool interior is a main object with the +architect, and this it has been necessary to effect by the +exclusion of light; consequently the church is dark, mysterious, +and almost cold. On the morning in question, as we entered, +it seemed to be filled with gloom, and the distant sound of a +slow footstep here and there beyond the transept inspired one +almost with awe. Maria, when she first met me, had begun to +talk with her usual smile, offering me coffee and a biscuit +before I started. “I never eat biscuit,” I +said, with almost a severe tone, as I turned from her. That +dark, horrid man of the plaza—would she have offered him a +cake had she been going to walk with him in the gloom of the +morning? After that little had been spoken between +us. She walked by my side with her accustomed smile; but +she had, as I flattered myself, begun to learn that I was not to +be won by a meaningless good nature. “We are lucky in +our morning for the view!” that was all she said, speaking +with that peculiarly clear, but slow pronunciation which she had +assumed in learning our language.</p> +<p>We entered the cathedral, and, walking the whole length of the +aisle, left it again at the porter’s porch at the farther +end. Here we passed through a low door on to the stone +flight of steps, and at once began to ascend. “There +are a party of your countrymen up before us,” said Maria; +“the porter says that they went through the lodge half an +hour since.” “I hope they will return before we +are on the top,” said I, bethinking myself of the task that +was before me. And indeed my heart was hardly at ease +within me, for that which I had to say would require all the +spirit of which I was master.</p> +<p>The ascent to the Giralda is very long and very fatiguing; and +we had to pause on the various landings and in the singular +belfry in order that Miss Daguilar might recruit her strength and +breath. As we rested on one of these occasions, in a +gallery which runs round the tower below the belfry, we heard a +great noise of shouting, and a clattering of sticks among the +bells. “It is the party of your countrymen who went +up before us,” said she. “What a pity that +Englishmen should always make so much noise!” And +then she spoke in Spanish to the custodian of the bells, who is +usually to be found in a little cabin up there within the +tower. “He says that they went up shouting like +demons,” continued Maria; and it seemed to me that she +looked as though I ought to be ashamed of the name of an +Englishman. “They may not be so solemn in their +demeanour as Spaniards,” I answered; “but, for all +that, there may be quite as much in them.”</p> +<p>We then again began to mount, and before we had ascended much +farther we passed my three countrymen. They were young men, +with gray coats and gray trousers, with slouched hats, and +without gloves. They had fair faces and fair hair, and +swung big sticks in their hands, with crooked handles. They +laughed and talked loud, and, when we met them, seemed to be +racing with each other; but nevertheless they were +gentlemen. No one who knows by sight what an English +gentleman is, could have doubted that; but I did acknowledge to +myself that they should have remembered that the edifice they +were treading was a church, and that the silence they were +invading was the cherished property of a courteous people.</p> +<p>“They are all just the same as big boys,” said +Maria. The colour instantly flew into my face, and I felt +that it was my duty to speak up for my own countrymen. The +word “boys” especially wounded my ears. It was +as a boy that she treated me; but, on looking at that befringed +young Spanish Don—who was not, apparently, my elder in +age—she had recognised a man. However, I said nothing +further till I reached the summit. One cannot speak with +manly dignity while one is out of breath on a staircase.</p> +<p>“There, John,” she said, stretching her hands away +over the fair plain of the Guadalquivir, as soon as we stood +against the parapet; “is not that lovely?”</p> +<p>I would not deign to notice this. “Maria,” I +said, “I think that you are too hard upon my +countrymen?”</p> +<p>“Too hard! no; for I love them. They are so good +and industrious; and come home to their wives, and take care of +their children. But why do they make themselves +so—so—what the French call gauche?”</p> +<p>“Good and industrious, and come home to their +wives!” thought I. “I believe you hardly +understand us as yet,” I answered. “Our +domestic virtues are not always so very prominent; but, I +believe, we know how to conduct ourselves as gentlemen: at any +rate, as well as Spaniards.” I was very +angry—not at the faults, but at the good qualities imputed +to us.</p> +<p>“In affairs of business, yes,” said Maria, with a +look of firm confidence in her own opinion—that look of +confidence which she has never lost, and I pray that she may +never lose it while I remain with her—“but in the +little intercourses of the world, no! A Spaniard never +forgets what is personally due either to himself or his +neighbours. If he is eating an onion, he eats it as an +onion should be eaten.”</p> +<p>“In such matters as that he is very grand, no +doubt,” said I, angrily.</p> +<p>“And why should you not eat an onion properly, +John? Now, I heard a story yesterday from Don—about +two Englishmen, which annoyed me very much.” I did +not exactly catch the name of the Don in question but I felt +through every nerve in my body that it was the man who had been +talking to her on the plaza.</p> +<p>“And what have they done?” said I. +“But it is the same everywhere. We are always abused; +but, nevertheless, no people are so welcome. At any rate, +we pay for the mischief we do.” I was angry with +myself the moment the words were out of my mouth, for, after all, +there is no feeling more mean than that pocket-confidence with +which an Englishman sometimes swaggers.</p> +<p>“There was no mischief done in this case,” she +answered. “It was simply that two men have made +themselves ridiculous for ever. The story is all about +Seville, and, of course, it annoys me that they should be +Englishmen.”</p> +<p>“And what did they do?”</p> +<p>“The Marquis D’Almavivas was coming up to Seville +in the boat, and they behaved to him in the most outrageous +manner. He is here now and is going to give a series of +fêtes. Of course he will not ask a single +Englishman.”</p> +<p>“We shall manage to live even though the Marquis +D’Almavivas may frown upon us,” said I, proudly.</p> +<p>“He is the richest, and also the best of our +noblemen,” continued Maria; “and I never heard of +anything so absurd as what they did to him. It made me +blush when Don — told me.” Don Tomàs, I +thought she said.</p> +<p>“If he be the best of your noblemen, how comes it that +he is angry because he has met two vulgar men? It is not to +be supposed that every Englishman is a gentleman.”</p> +<p>“Angry! Oh, no! he was not angry; he enjoyed the +joke too much for that. He got completely the best of them, +though they did not know it; poor fools! How would your +Lord John Russell behave if two Spaniards in an English railway +carriage were to pull him about and tear his clothes?”</p> +<p>“He would give them in charge to a policeman, of +course,” said I, speaking of such a matter with the +contempt it deserved.</p> +<p>“If that were done here your ambassador would be +demanding national explanations. But Almavivas did much +better;—he laughed at them without letting them know +it.”</p> +<p>“But do you mean that they took hold of him violently, +without any provocation? They must have been +drunk.”</p> +<p>“Oh, no, they were sober enough. I did not see it, +so I do not quite know exactly how it was, but I understand that +they committed themselves most absurdly, absolutely took hold of +his coat and tore it, and—; but they did such ridiculous +things that I cannot tell you.” And yet Don +Tomàs, if that was the man’s name, had been able to +tell her, and she had been able to listen to him.</p> +<p>“‘What made them take hold of the marquis?” +said I.</p> +<p>“Curiosity, I suppose,” she answered. +“He dresses somewhat fancifully, and they could not +understand that any one should wear garments different from their +own.” But even then the blow did not strike home upon +me.</p> +<p>“Is it not pretty to look down upon the quiet +town?” she said, coming close up to me, so that the skirt +of her dress pressed me, and her elbow touched my arm. Now +was the moment I should have asked her how her heart stood +towards me; but I was sore and uncomfortable, and my destiny was +before me. She was willing enough to let these English +faults pass without further notice, but I would not allow the +subject I drop.</p> +<p>“I will find out who these men were,” said I, +“and learn the truth of it. When did it +occur?”</p> +<p>“Last Thursday, I think he said.”</p> +<p>“Why, that was the day we came up in the boat, Johnson +and myself. There was no marquis there then, and we were +the only Englishmen on board.”</p> +<p>“It was on Thursday, certainly, because it was well +known in Seville that he arrived on that day. You must have +remarked him because he talks English perfectly—though +by-the-bye, these men would go on chattering before him about +himself as though it were impossible that a Spaniard should know +their language. They are ignorant of Spanish, and they +cannot bring themselves to believe that any one should be better +educated than themselves.”</p> +<p>Now the blow had fallen, and I straightway appreciated the +necessity of returning immediately to Clapham where my family +resided, and giving up for ever all idea of Spanish +connections. I had resolved to assert the full strength of +my manhood on that tower, and now words had been spoken which +left me weak as a child. I felt that I was shivering, and +did not dare to pronounce the truth which must be made +known. As to speaking of love, and signifying my pleasure +that Don Tomàs should for the future be kept at a +distance, any such effort was quite beyond me. Had Don +Tomàs been there, he might have walked off with her from +before my face without a struggle on my part. “Now I +remember about it,” she continued, “I think he must +have been in the boat on Thursday.”</p> +<p>“And now that I remember,” I replied, turning away +to hide my embarrassment, “he was there. Your friend +down below in the plaza seems to have made out a grand +story. No doubt he is not fond of the English. There +was such a man there, and I did take hold—”</p> +<p>“Oh, John, was it you?”</p> +<p>“Yes, Donna Maria, it was I; and if Lord John Russell +were to dress himself in the same way—” But I +had no time to complete my description of what might occur under +so extravagantly impossible a combination of circumstances, for +as I was yet speaking, the little door leading out on to the +leads of the tower was opened and my friend, the mayo of the +boat, still bearing gewgaws on his back, stepped up on to the +platform. My eye instantly perceived that the one pendule +was still missing from his jacket. He did not come alone, +but three other gentlemen followed him, who, however, had no +peculiarities in their dress. He saw me at once and bowed +and smiled; and then observing Donna Maria, he lifted his cap +from his head, and addressing himself to her in Spanish, began to +converse with her as though she were an old friend.</p> +<p>“Señor,” said Maria, after the first words +of greeting had been spoken between them; “you must permit +me to present to you my father’s most particular friend, +and my own,—Mr. Pomfret; John, this is the Marquis +D’Almavivas.”</p> +<p>I cannot now describe the grace with which this introduction +was effected, or the beauty of her face as she uttered the +word. There was a boldness about her as though she had +said, “I know it all—the whole story. But, in +spite of that you must take him on my representation, and be +gracious to him in spite of what he has done. You must be +content to do that; or in quarrelling with him you must quarrel +with me also.” And it was done at the spur of the +moment—without delay. She, who not five minutes since +had been loudly condemning the unknown Englishman for his +rudeness, had already pardoned him, now that he was known to be +her friend; and had determined that he should be pardoned by +others also or that she would share his disgrace. I +recognised the nobleness of this at the moment; but, +nevertheless, I was so sore that I would almost have preferred +that she should have disowned me.</p> +<p>The marquis immediately lifted his cap with his left hand +while he gave me his right. “I have already had the +pleasure of meeting this gentleman,” he said; “we had +some conversation in the boat together.”</p> +<p>“Yes,” said I, pointing to his rent, “and +you still bear the marks of our encounter.”</p> +<p>“Was it not delightful, Donna Maria,” he +continued, turning to her; “your friend’s friend took +me for a torero?”</p> +<p>“And it served you properly, señor,” said +Donna Maria, laughing, “you have no right to go about with +all those rich ornaments upon you.”</p> +<p>“Oh! quite properly; indeed, I make no complaint; and I +must beg your friend to understand, and his friend also, how +grateful I am for their solicitude as to my pecuniary +welfare. They were inclined to be severe on me for being so +extravagant in such trifles. I was obliged to explain that +I had no wife at home kept without her proper allowance of +dresses, in order that I might be gay.”</p> +<p>“They are foreigners, and you should forgive their +error,” said she.</p> +<p>“And in token that I do so,” said the marquis, +“I shall beg your friend to accept the little ornament +which attracted his attention.” And so saying, he +pulled the identical button out of his pocket, and gracefully +proffered it to me.</p> +<p>“I shall carry it about with me always,” said I, +accepting it, “as a memento of humiliation. When I +look at it, I shall ever remember the folly of an Englishman and +the courtesy of a Spaniard;” and as I made the speech I +could not but reflect whether it might, under any circumstances, +be possible that Lord John Russell should be induced to give a +button off his coat to a Spaniard.</p> +<p>There were other civil speeches made, and before we left the +tower the marquis had asked me to his parties, and exacted from +me an unwilling promise that I would attend them. +“The señora,” he said, bowing again to Maria, +“would, he was sure, grace them. She had done so on +the previous year; and as I had accepted his little present I was +bound to acknowledge him as my friend.” All this was +very pretty, and of course I said that I would go, but I had not +at that time the slightest intention of doing so. Maria had +behaved admirably; she had covered my confusion, and shown +herself not ashamed to own me, delinquent as I was; but, not the +less, had she expressed her opinion, in language terribly strong, +of the awkwardness of which I had been guilty, and had shown +almost an aversion to my English character. I should leave +Seville as quickly as I could, and should certainly not again put +myself in the way of the Marquis D’Almavivas. Indeed, +I dreaded the moment that I should be first alone with her, and +should find myself forced to say something indicative of my +feelings—to hear something also indicative of +feelings. I had come out this morning resolved to demand my +rights and to exercise them—and now my only wish was to run +away. I hated the marquis, and longed to be alone that I +might cast his button from me. To think that a man should +be so ruined by such a trifle!</p> +<p>We descended that prodigious flight without a word upon the +subject, and almost without a word at all. She had carried +herself well in the presence of Almavivas, and had been too proud +to seem ashamed of her companion; but now, as I could well see, +her feelings of disgust and contempt had returned. When I +begged her not to hurry herself, she would hardly answer me; and +when she did speak, her voice was constrained and unlike +herself. And yet how beautiful she was! Well, my +dream of Spanish love must be over. But I was sure of this; +that having known her, and given her my heart, I could never +afterwards share it with another.</p> +<p>We came out at last on the dark, gloomy aisle of the +cathedral, and walked together without a word up along the side +of the choir, till we came to the transept. There was not a +soul near us, and not a sound was to be heard but the distant, +low pattering of a mass, then in course of celebration at some +far-off chapel in the cathedral. When we got to the +transept Maria turned a little, as though she was going to the +transept door, and then stopped herself. She stood still; +and when I stood also, she made two steps towards me, and put her +hand on my arm. “Oh, John!” she said.</p> +<p>“‘Well,” said I; “after all it does +not signify. You can make a joke of it when my back is +turned.”</p> +<p>“Dearest John!”—she had never spoken to me +in that way before—“you must not be angry with +me. It is better that we should explain to each other, is +it not?”</p> +<p>“Oh, much better. I am very glad you heard of it +at once. I do not look at it quite in the same light that +you do; but nevertheless—”</p> +<p>“What do you mean? But I know you are angry with +me. And yet you cannot think that I intended those words +for you. Of course I know now that there was nothing rude +in what passed.”</p> +<p>“Oh, but there was.”</p> +<p>“No, I am sure there was not. You could not be +rude though you are so free hearted. I see it all now, and +so does the marquis. You will like him so much when you +come to know him. Tell me that you won’t be cross +with me for what I have said. Sometimes I think that I have +displeased you, and yet my whole wish has been to welcome you to +Seville, and to make you comfortable as an old friend. +Promise me that you will not be cross with me.”</p> +<p>Cross with her! I certainly had no intention of being +cross, but I had begun to think that she would not care what my +humour might be. “Maria,” I said, taking hold +of her hand.</p> +<p>“No, John, do not do that. It is in the church, +you know.”</p> +<p>“Maria, will you answer me a question?”</p> +<p>“Yes,” she said, very slowly, looking dawn upon +the stone slabs beneath our feet.</p> +<p>“Do you love me?”</p> +<p>“Love you!”</p> +<p>“Yes, do you love me? You were to give me an +answer here, in Seville, and now I ask for it. I have +almost taught myself to think that it is needless to ask; and now +this horrid mischance—”</p> +<p>“What do you mean?” said she, speaking very +quickly.</p> +<p>“Why this miserable blunder about the marquis’s +button! After that I suppose—”</p> +<p>“The marquis! Oh, John, is that to make a +difference between you and me?—a little joke like +that?”</p> +<p>“But does it not?”</p> +<p>“Make a change between us!—such a thing as +that! Oh, John!”</p> +<p>“But tell me, Maria, what am I to hope? If you +will say that you can love me, I shall care nothing for the +marquis. In that case I can bear to be laughed +at.”</p> +<p>“Who will dare to laugh at you? Not the marquis, +whom I am sure you will like.”</p> +<p>“Your friend in this plaza, who told you of all +this.”</p> +<p>“What, poor Tomàs!”</p> +<p>“I do not know about his being poor. I mean the +gentleman who was with you last night.”</p> +<p>“Yes, Tomàs. You do not know who he +is?”</p> +<p>“Not in the least.”</p> +<p>“How droll! He is your own clerk—partly your +own, now that you are one of the firm. And, John, I mean to +make you do something for him; he is such a good fellow; and last +year he married a young girl whom I love—oh, almost like a +sister.”</p> +<p>Do something for him! Of course I would. I +promised, then and there, that I would raise his salary to any +conceivable amount that a Spanish clerk could desire; which +promise I have since kept, if not absolutely to the letter, at +any rate, to an extent which has been considered satisfactory by +the gentleman’s wife.</p> +<p>“But, Maria—dearest Maria—”</p> +<p>“Remember, John, we are in the church; and poor papa +will be waiting breakfast.”</p> +<p>I need hardly continue the story further. It will be +known to all that my love-suit throve in spite of my unfortunate +raid on the button of the Marquis D’Almavivas, at whose +series of fêtes through that month I was, I may boast, an +honoured guest. I have since that had the pleasure of +entertaining him in my own poor house in England, and one of our +boys bears his Christian name.</p> +<p>From that day in which I ascended the Giralda to this present +day in which I write, I have never once had occasion to complain +of a deficiency of romance either in Maria Daguilar or in Maria +Pomfret.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN BULL ON THE GUADALQUIVIR***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 3615-h.htm or 3615-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/6/1/3615 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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