college here; and Cervantes lived for a long
time in a house still pointed out as his in the
CaUe de los Moros. The palaces in Salamanca
are very beautiful, especially the Casa de las
Conchas, so called from the pecten shells pro-
jecting out of each stone; the Casa de las
Salinas, with its overhanging roof and gaUery
and richly ornamented windows ; and the Palacio
del Conde de Monterey, with its turrets and an
upper gallery of arcaded windows, which look
like the rich lace fringe of the solid building
below. After lionising the whole morning, one
of the party went to call on the bishop, a man
universally esteemed and beloved in Salamanca,
who received his visitor with fatherly kindness,
and at once volimteered to walk with her and
show her the diflferent conventual establishments,
which she had obtained Papal permission to see.
The lady soon found, however, that walking with
the bishop, though a great honour, was a mat-
ter of some difficulty. No sooner did his broad
green-tasselled hat and emerald cross appear at
the comer of any street, than every human
being, old and young, rich and poor, gentle
and simple, rushed out of their houses, or across
the road, to kneel and kiss his hand and re-
ceive his apostolical benediction, their faces all
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