Проспер Мериме - Carmen

It will be understood that I should have looked ridiculous if I had proposed to have my fortune told in a café . I therefore begged the pretty witch’s leave to go home with her. She made no difficulties about consenting, but she wanted to know what o’clock it was again, and requested me to make my repeater strike once more.

“Is it really gold?” she said, gazing at it with rapt attention.

When we started off again, it was quite dark. Most of the shops were shut, and the streets were almost empty. We crossed the bridge over the Guadalquivir, and at the far end of the suburb we stopped in front of a house of anything but palatial appearance. The door was opened by a child, to whom the gipsy spoke a few words in a language unknown to me, which I afterward understood to be Romany

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The Andalusians aspirate the s , and pronounce it like the soft c and the z , which Spaniards pronounce like the English th . An Andalusian may always be recognised by the way in which he says senor .

The privileged Provinces , Alava, Biscay, Guipuzcoa, and a part of Navarre, which all enjoy special fueros . The Basque language is spoken in these countries.

A café to which a depot of ice, or rather of snow, is attached. There is hardly a village in Spain without its neveria .

Every traveller in Spain who does not carry about samples of calicoes and silks is taken for an Englishman ( inglesito ). It is the same thing in the East.

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