taking in boarders to make ends meet while her husband tended to his fledgling legal career. Business boomed, and the couple expanded their empire, purchasing several more Victorian homes, and eventually adding two Spanish Colonial additions in the 1920s. The hotel passed into the hands of severa...
She offered me a share of her apartment, which my virtue induced me to decline; she laughed, and said I had some English amante (lover), and added that she was going to be married to an officer in the Spanish army. I left Seville, and rode on to Cadiz, through a beautiful country....