"Shall I bring thy mantilla, Doña Carmen?" She looked up with a swift blush, then lowered her soft black eyes suddenly before the penetrating gaze of the man who was so different from the caballeros.

The ladies wear hats instead of mantillas, but they buy hats on Calle Obispo just as and where their mothers and grandmothers bought mantillas.

You might have chosen the mantilla with the Brussels lace.

But Juanita emphasised each item of her late education with a jerk which gradually deranged Cousin Peligros' prim mantilla.

Almost immediately Juanita came hurrying back and instinctively drew her mantilla closer at the sight of his shadowy form.

how the years have o'er thee flung Their soft mantilla, grey.

He quitted the hut and overheard the woman pointing out to Juanita that she had lost her mantilla coming through the trees in the dark.

" She rose, rubbing her eyes with the backs of her hands, saw the mantilla he was holding, suffered him to drop it on, her shoulders, standing there sleepy and acquiescent.

She had thrown back the hood of Marcos' military cloak and now set her mantilla in order.

"No." She gave a great sigh of relief and shook back her mantilla.

Then she twisted up the heavy plait that hung to her waist, threw back her mantilla and stood laughing before the old lady.

The girls and young married women wore black or white mantillas, the silken lace of Spain, regardless of the sun which might darken their Castilian fairness.