A
CHAPTER
IX.
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of Day at Valencia — Showing a Visitor tlie Lionesses Beauty— Love at first sight Valenciau Lace-makers The house General Paez The Fair Antonia An awkward question The male-
Erminia
— Break
—
of
— —
— —
Creole
diction fulfilled.
I
HAD met
Puerto Cabello a young Englishman wliose
at
appearance interested me.
He
year, overflowing with spii'its
handsome feet
that
and one
it
mch
He
was six
high, perfectly well made, and as for his
him
lift
four hundred-weight with the
His hair was dark brown, and curled natu-
greatest ease. ;
and good natm^e, and so very
did one good to look at him.
strength, I have seen
rally
was only in his twenty-thii-d
he had a puik and white complexion, a shghtly aqui-
line nose,
The
and dark-blue eyes with black eyelashes.
and yellow visages of the Creoles made his
black, brown,
face look all the
handsomer from the contrast
;
and when
one saw him in company with some of the cadaverous natives,
it
was impossible to help exclamiing, " "What a
superb fellow liis
name
!
"
—had
But Mr. George Hayward
—
for that
a weakness for which personal advantages
are a very msufficient
compensation.
He
was extremely
extravagant, and, consequently, not very scrupulous tling his liabilities,
that his friends
was
m
set-
and had ah'eady spent so much money
had been very glad
to get
America as a clerk in a commercial house,
him out -with
to
South
the prospect