In Barcelona he became acquainted with his uncle, the rich and talented financier of the Blanes family,one of his mother's brothers, proprietor of a great hardware shop situated in one of the damp, narrow and crowded streets that ran into the Rambla.

Ferragut recognized them at once upon passing them in the Rambla.

He used to like to stroll among the flower stands of the Rambla, between the two walls of recently-cut flowers that were still guarding in their corollas the dews of daybreak.

Such insistence was not particularly gratifying to his pride; for she was a female of protruding bust and swaying hips, a cook with a basket on her arm, like many others who were passing through the Rambla in order to add a bunch of flowers to the daily purchase of eatables.

Perhaps some one of these had seen him in the Rambla, sending this intermediary in order to renew the old relations.

His only distraction was to visit his cousins in their counting-houses, or to meander through the Rambla.

But on reaching the torre, whose number he still kept in mind, and pausing a few seconds before its architecture of a feudal castle whose interior was probably like that of the beer gardens, he saw the door opening, and appearing in it the same woman that had talked with him in the flower Rambla.

This morning in the Rambla I could no longer contain myself.

Ferragut stood undecided whether to go home to eat, or to a restaurant in the Rambla.

He now proceeded farther along the coast, and in two days came to a town called Aqualunco, which the Spaniards called la Rambla.

Two days sail from Tabasco, we arrived opposite to a town called Aguayaluco, which we named la Rambla, where we observed many of the inhabitants armed with shields of tortoise-shell, which the soldiers believed to have been gold, from being polished and shining in the sun.