The little opening for civil labor in Spain and Portugal, and the prospect of comfortable perquisites in the colonies, have sent many a starving caballero across the ocean.

We had seen princely dons of many leagues ride by in state; dashing caballeros resplendent in costumes of satin and velvet, on their way to sing beneath the windows of dark-eyed señoritas; and had stood close enough to the wearers of embroidered and lace-bedecked small clothes, to count the scallops which closed the seams of their outer garments, and to hear the faint tinkle of the tiny silver bells which dangled from them.

Estos dos caballeros, iguales en cuna, valor y nobles prendas, servidores de un mismo rey y pretendientes de una misma dama, llamábanse Alonso de Carrillo el uno,

The change became him; he seemed a larger and handsomer man for it; he looked the caballero and almost the hidalgo.

Truly they hated each other very muchthose two caballeros!

"Wilt thou stay with me?" panted the caballero.

Above all this gorgeousness sat the caballeros and the doñas, in velvet and silk, gold lace and Spanish, jewels and mantillas, and silver-weighted sombreros; a confused mass of color and motion; a living picture, shifting like a kaleidoscope.

A moment later Reinaldo and Prudencia appeared, the former as splendid a caballero as ever, although wearing the chastened air of matrimony, the latter pre-maternally consequential.

sí en gallardía ó donaire, la habían aprovechado con afán ambos caballeros, ansiosos de distinguirse á los ojos de su dama; y aquella noche, impelidos sin duda por un mismo afán, trocando los hierros por las

Hastily changing her black gown for the first her hand touched,it happened to be vivid red and made her look as white as wax,she returned to the sala; not to dance even the square contradanza, but to stand surrounded by worshiping caballeros with curling hair tied with gay ribbons, and jewels in their laces.