The Fiery Angel
“It was cool and shady, and Renata and I talked without tiring, the while we slowly made our way onward. I was not a stranger to society, despite my soldier’s life, for in Italian cities I had often had occasion to visit both carnival masques and theatrical performances, and later, in New Spain, I used to attend the evening gatherings in local wealthy houses, where reigns by no means the barbarism of a wilderness, as many think, but where, on the contrary, elegant ladies play the lute, the zithe...r and the flute, and dance the algada, the passionesa, the mauresque and the other latest dances with their cavaliers. Trying to show Renata that under my rough sailor’s jacket hid one who was no stranger to education, I was happily surprised to find in my partner’s conversation a sharpness of wit and a breadth of knowledge unusual in a woman, so that involuntarily all my mental faculties took guard, like an experienced fencer meeting unexpectedly a skilful blade in his opponent. Of the manifestations of the night we said not a word, and one might have imagined, to see how gaily we were talking, that I was peacefully escorting a lady away from some sumptuous tournament.MoreLess
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