The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

our author, informs us that the camarada not only journeyed and lived with his companion of the way, but even slept in the same chamber, and not unfrequently in the same bed.

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The ex-votos, or pictures and figures here described, are too familiar to the visitor of Catholic churches to need any explanation.

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Student: they are so called from the name given to the portfolio in which they carry their books and papers to the university, and which they always have with them.

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The reader will be pleased to guess the name of that insufferable insect which the Spaniards denominate Chinche, and with the English equivalent of which I am unwilling to offend his eyes. Happy, indeed, if he cannot guess; but then he cannot have seen either Seville or Granada, and one might almost encounter an acquaintance with the animal called Chinche rather than renounce them.

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Such of our readers as have visited Rome, will remember that enormous mound which is seen rising on the right hand as you leave the city, by the Porta Salaria, and is said to have been formed by the numberless fragments of pottery cast on the spot from time immemorial.