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Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Doria Dolores Gonzales, viuda (or widow)de Garcia. There are many reasons in favor of a womanretaining her maiden name after marriage, the chief beino: that sheis not so completely effaced as with us; and especially should this bea forceful reason if the lady should have acquired a literary or artisticfame previous to marriage. Senorita Smith, for instance, should shehappen to marry a man named Brown, would henceforth be addressedas Seriora Dona Carlota Smith de Brown, and we would more fre-quently address her as Dona Smith, or Dona Carlota, than as Mrs.Brown ; and the children of the marriage would retain both namesuntil they had (the girls especially) married, and added another to thename of Brown. It is both a means of enlightenment as to theirpedigree, and of perplexity to a stranger. Dona Dolores was gentle, sympathetic, and motherly ; her recentgrief had plunged her into melancholy, but she did not allow it tointrude itself upon her alien household. Besides ourselves there were
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A STREET IX TOLEDO. TOLEDO, ON THE GOLDEN TAGUS. 121 four boarders, — two bachelors, and a couple newly married, who billedand cooed in a way that seemed to us most obtrusively and unneces-sarily affectionate. They were soon to sail for Cuba, and asked us allmanner of questions about America and the West Indies, seemingto have some anxiety about the voyage and their reception in a countryso far away. They were all tolerable enough, and all very kind, butone of them had some unpleasant habits. As to the table mannersof Spaniards in general we feel inclined to say a great deal; but per-haps prudence might suggest silence on this subject. But it was a pleasant company, and one kindly disposed to thestrangers that sat at meat with them twice a day for a week. Wesoon discovered that the street in which Dona Dolores house wassituated was much out of the way, and it would have been betterhad we been lodged in the Puerta del Sol, in the centre of the city;but it is a rule with the Club neve

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