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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: An Idler's Note-Book MEXICO CITY fe, FIRST IMPRESSIONS I knew very well how the old, old City of Mexico was going to impress me. There would be splendid churches, with long, glittering religious processions. There would be acres of century-old palaces, with musicianers by the palm-shaded fountains and loungers in purple and silver. Every front yard would be an enchanting tangle of aloes and cactus and orchids and chocolate trees. In every balcony there was sure to be a pretty maiden, with a fan and a mantilla and a big comb of real shell in her blue-black hair. In the street below, a masculine affinity. He, I dreamed, would be tall and lightning - eyed, ? with a sugar-loaf hat, a zarape, a cigarette?he might have his guitar. And there would be duennas somewhere and monks in gray and bullfighters in scarlet and tinsel. There would be gayly-costumed poor people ?not many, and all light-hearted, I hoped. They would, I presumed, be drinking goblets of foamy chocolateor weaving garlands of flowers with which to decorate their water-jars. There might be a few gorgeous brigands, with embroidered jackets and silver spurs a-jangle. And (who could tell?) there might be a political revolution Of course I could not be quite sure of everything, although my hopes were reasonably modern; and, as a latter-day pilgrim, I really must expect one or two refining disappointments. Yet there was one thing of which I was entirely confident. I knew that my first view of all those dazzling, enrapturing landscape arrangements would be under the bluest-blue sky and in a blinding white sunshine. Therefore, as we rushed throughblue - green fields of pulque - plants, dotted thickly with pre-historic ruins and with ancient churches newly whitewashed and with sky-blue rain-...
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