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WITH COTTAGERS IN MOUNTAINS 175
“Won’t you sign, Antonio López?” they shout to
an old man.
“But I can’t aim a rifle any more, or ride after the
gendarmes in the mountains,” is the discouraged reply.
“But you can stay home and defend our wives and
children!”
“Yes, indeed, that I can,” he proudly answers, as he
signs.
A few have withdrawn into the corner of the room
in order to avoid setting down their names. They
are forced out into the open with great merriment and
are introduced to the assembly as the vanguard of
the revolution.
The women of the village did not attend the as-
sembly, but after it was over, a delegation of cottagers’
wives visited us in order to salute my wife and beg us
to choose something in the village that we should like
to take back home with us. In this act these simple
women felt themselves to be the representatives of the
whole nation. They expressed their hope that no one
might have given us any cause for annoyance in the
course of our journey, that we might take home with
us a favorable impression of Spain and that our little
trip to the village of X. might not be any exception in
this general favorable impression.
Don Louis took the night train to Granada; but we
intended to go back on foot the following morning,
for a view of the Vega and so we took lodgings for the
night in the inn. We had to pass through another
room in order to reach ours. There was no door be-
tween them, only a curtain in the doorway. We had
just retired for the night when a commercial traveler
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