Spain Revisited Volume 2
Description:... This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...limb thus exposed, at each successive visit he had made to Valladolid, during the last five months. The friar, who seemed to be highly delighted with the way the robber's crime had been requited to him, remarked, that the limbs must all be taken down and collected for Christian burial before Palm Sunday, as no exhibition of that sort could continue during the Holy Week. The conscientious denial of absolution on the part of the murdered curate, may serve as an answer of no little force to such fanatical revilers VOL. II. I 170 MADRID DILIGENCE. of the Catholic church, as denounce confession as a fosterer of crime. In this case, indeed, it was the occasion of crime, but under circumstances suited, on the contrary to have restrained it. The incident shows, moreover, the general prevalence of a religious feeling of some sort among the most abandoned classes in Spain, at a time when infidelity is so wide-spread and prevailing in almost every other country. Just as we had passed the fork of the road, and this terrible finger-board, pointing to Valladolid, we were overtaken by the Madrid diligence, drawn by no fewer than ten mules, coming on at the rate of a hunt, as is usual with diligences on entering a city, where there are likely to be abundance of spectators to be terrified or astounded by their speed, the zagals whooping, cursing, and belabouring their mules at every jump, and the train setting in motion a cloud of dust, in which we were suffocated. Presently after, the friar struck into a road leading to the right, taking leave of us most courteously, and with many a God-speed. He did not intend to lodge in the city, but in a convent of his order without the walls, having probably come in the same way throughout his whole journey, thus...
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