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MOROCCO, SPAIN, AND THE CANARY ISLANDS.
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CHAPTER III.
Theories of Beauty―Size, the Measure of Female Loveliness―The Servant of Servants―Jews and Jewesses―How Dark Eyes are made Darker―Freedom of Action of the Moorish Women―What sort of Animal is a Nazarene Woman?―I take Tea with a Lady―A Moorish Household―Legitimate Shoots and Superfluous Offshoots―Saracenic Decorations―The Secrets of the Toilet.
When the dance was ended, the lady of the house was formally presented to her guests. She had considerable pretensions to beauty, her face, in particular, being what I can only describe in adequate terms as magnificently handsome. But although my attention was particularly attracted to the human countenance divine, its form, its features, and expression, I was soon able to discover that the natives of this sunny clime have a much more ample standard of beauty than any by which the
