[Footnote 1: She later married Don Benigno Quiroga Ballesteros, an illustrious engineer, congressman, minister of state, and man of public life, who is still living.

Sr. D. Benigno Quiroga Ballesteros and to his lately deceased wife, Doña Julia, the muse of at least some of Becquer's Rimas, for an opportunity to examine a couple of albums containing some of the poet's verse and a most interesting collection of pencil sketches, which but confirm his admiration for Becquer's artistic talent.

sus ballesteros en lo alto de la roca en que sus antepasados

rebaños al Segre por sendas impracticables y ocultas, temblando encontrar á cada revuelta de la trocha á los ballesteros de su muy amado señor.

ballesta, f.;, crossbow. ballestero, m., archer, crossbowman.