A Spanish Lover
“It was warm. The clear spring sun shone down out of a bright spring sky. She sat on a tiled seat in one of the brick walks and gazed at the sprouting ungainly palms and the orange trees, already dusty, even in April.
Luis had first brought her to the Alcázar the summer before, on a day of such blinding heat that she had felt she was in a dream. He had led her through the colonnaded courts and tiled rooms of the Palace, the Moorish arches and domes and arabesques so strangely muddled up with the... Renaissance columns and galleries. Luis had said the place seethed with stories. One of them concerned King Pedro the Cruel who had murdered a guest from Granada, one Abu Said, for the sake of his jewels, among which was an uncut ruby that Pedro then presented to the Black Prince at a Court ball given in his honour, in 1350. It was firmly believed that the ruby had gone back to England and that Henry V had then worn it during the battle of Agincourt.
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Luis had first brought her to the Alcázar the summer before, on a day of such blinding heat that she had felt she was in a dream. He had led her through the colonnaded courts and tiled rooms of the Palace, the Moorish arches and domes and arabesques so strangely muddled up with the... Renaissance columns and galleries. Luis had said the place seethed with stories. One of them concerned King Pedro the Cruel who had murdered a guest from Granada, one Abu Said, for the sake of his jewels, among which was an uncut ruby that Pedro then presented to the Black Prince at a Court ball given in his honour, in 1350. It was firmly believed that the ruby had gone back to England and that Henry V had then worn it during the battle of Agincourt.
‘And where is it now?’ ‘Where do you think?MoreLess
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