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A ROMAN BRIDGE
while directly below us lies the rocky chaos in which we found ourselves a moment since. My Spanish hosts soon become interested in the photographic manipulations and question me as to my name and country. They invite me to take a glass of sherry in the drawing-room, insisting upon my retaining my hat indoors, which is a curious form of Spanish courtesy. As I rise to go, the kind old Don leads
