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Title: Old court life in Spain
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Elliot, Frances, 1820-1898
Subjects: Spain -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York, London : G. P. Putnams's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rning become a Christian church),to celebrate a solemn Te Deum to the warlikemusic of fifes, flutes, and joy-bells. Such is the chapel of San Salvador on the roadto Motril, the Arab walls untouched, the altar,a rude Mithrab, under a Saracenic arch, stillstanding, an incrusted dome overhead, edged witha coloured border, the whole a little circularinterior of fit proportion, and honeycombed nichesat its sides. On the outer wall an inscription, inold Spanish letters, sets forth that: On this spot King Boabdil met Los ReyesCatolicos, and delivered to them the keys ofGranada; who, in memory of their gratitude toGod for overcoming the Moors, converted thismosque into a chapel, in honour of San Sebastian. The sovereigns enter the city towards nightfall(dreary in that season of January, for Granada isa mountain place), the shadow of tossing plumesand glancing armour falling on fields of snow, whichdeaden the tramp of the war-horses and the passingof arquebusiers. But the bells ring out trium-
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THE END OF THE MOORS 335 phant in the dark air, and penetrate into the deep-est recesses of the Moorish patios, where everyMoslem has shut himself up in black despair. There was a crying in Granada When the sun was going down;Some calling on the Trinity, Some calling on Mahomet.Thus cried the Moslem while his hands His own beard did tear:Farewell! farewell, Granada! Thou city without peer!Woe! woe! thou pride of Heathendom, Seven hundred years and moreHave gone, since first the faithful Thy royal sceptre bore. At the door of the great mosque, the same onwhich the harebrained knight of Pulgar withhis fifteen companions as wild as himself hadfixed the tablet with the words Ave Maria, theyhalted. Like the chapel, it had been hastily conse-crated. Here the sovereigns offered up prayer andthanksgiving. In what part of the present cathedral did thisoccur? At what is now the high altar, or withinthe Capilla Real? Did any wandering spirit whisper into the earof the still beautiful queen, in t

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