Excerpt from Diary of an Idle Woman in Spain, Vol. 1 of 2 No houses, streets, or faubourgs - nothing but a solitude of white walls, marble balustrades, carved portals, and lines of endless windows, overlooking hanging gardens, and lofty terraces towering over trees. Below, on emerald banks, in the cool gorge, I see tents and tilted waggons. The thrum of guitars and castanets drifts upwards; the drone of Moorish ballads, the cries of children, men leaping in the wild dances of old Spain, swinging cudgels, and flinging arms in Pyrrhic rounds; large-eyed Gitanas and brown-faced peasants looking on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.