This was a sore subject. It is not my fault that my father was as recklessly brave a general, and as obstinately determined a partisan as Don Carlos ever had. If I had been born in those days, it is possible that I should have done as my father did; but I was not born, and therefore not responsible. Nor was it the King's fault that we lost our estates which my ancestors owned in the days of Charles V; nor that we lost our fortune, we Casa Trianas; nor that my father was banished from Spain. For the King was not born, ...
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This was a sore subject. It is not my fault that my father was as recklessly brave a general, and as obstinately determined a partisan as Don Carlos ever had. If I had been born in those days, it is possible that I should have done as my father did; but I was not born, and therefore not responsible. Nor was it the King's fault that we lost our estates which my ancestors owned in the days of Charles V; nor that we lost our fortune, we Casa Trianas; nor that my father was banished from Spain. For the King was not born, therefore he was not responsible; so why should I blame him for anything that has happened to me? It was perhaps ill-judged to visit my father's land, since to him it had been a land forbidden. But a few months after his death, when I was twenty-one, the longing to see Spain had become an obsession. And it must have been my evil star which [pg 4]influenced an anarchist to throw a bomb at a royal personage on the very day I arrived at Barcelona, thinly "disguised" under an English name.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. 9781440078514. Reprint of the 1907 McClure edition. Note the text is reproduced from rather muddy digital scans.; 8vo; 365 pages.
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Both, Armand. Very Good. No Jacket. Love and adventure travelling across Spain. Lightly bumped and rubbed with a couple of small drip marks on the spine, front board unevenly sunned. Hinges a bit loose with the previous owner's name inside.
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Armand Both. Very Good. Original red designer cloth with design of an oasis by Thomas M. Cleland and illustrated endpapers. A clean, tight, unmarked copy, unusually well preserved. Octavo.
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