A polyglot Valet.—Missionary Schools.—Foreign Chaplains.—The Church _Militant_.—Upper Chamber.—Religious Intolerance.—Inquisition.— Persecution.—Spanish Sabbath.—Devotion.—Infidelity.—The Prado.— Bull-ring.—Wine Shops.—Frolicking.—Dancing.—Cheap Wines.—Carnival.— Costumes.—Politeness.—Maskers.—Ancient Belle.—Hobbling Monk.—Pope.— Natural Goose.—Devil.—Orang-outang.—General Abandon.—Religion and Folly.—Good Humor 29 CHAPTER V. MADRID.—PALACE.—BANK.—PICTURE-GALLERY. Napoleon’s Epigram.—Royal Palace.—Cavalry.—Military Parade.—Plains of Castile.—Armory.—Swords of Gonzalo de Cordova, Ferdinand, and Charles V.—Armor of Boabdil.—Revolvers.—Mighty Men of War.—Toledo Blade.— Stables.—Spanish Horses.—Merino Sheep.—Royal Equipage.—Crazy Jane’s Carriage.—Her Effigy.—Mischievous Display.—French Language and Influence.—Slow Coaches.—Cheap Labor.—Architecture.—Banking-house.— Bank of Spain.—Repose of Manner.—Gold at last.—Railroads.— Post-office.—Personal Identity.—Rebel General.—Lost Letters.— Telegraphs.—Progress.—Picture-gallery.—The Immaculate Conception.— Vision of St. Bernard.—Christ sinking under his Cross.—Equestrian Portrait of Charles V.—Titian.—Correggio.—Mary in the Garden.—Blas del Prado.—Hidden Gems.—Murillo.—Material and Ideal Art 39 CHAPTER VI. TOLEDO.—ITS FLEAS, LANDLORDS, ANTIQUITIES, AND LUNATICS. Progress.—Hotel Lino.—The wicked Flea.—Easy Manners.—Breakfast.—Model Landlord and Waiters.—Toledo Butter.—City set on a Hill.—Monuments of departed Peoples.—Romance.—Architecture.—Oldest City in the World.— Mythic Founders.—Perfidy of Roderick.—Reign of the Archbishops.— Decline of Power and Glory.—Cathedral.—Descent of the Virgin.—A fair Penitent.—Orthodoxy of the Priesthood.—Burning of the Missals.—The Muzarabe.—The dead Lion better than a living Dog.—Eloquent Epitaph.— Honors paid the Virgin.—The Alcazar.—Derivation of Mango.—Spanish Pride.—Peacocks.—Foreign Impressions.—Moorish Gates.—San Juan de los Reyes.—Thank-offerings.—St. Florinde.—Cave of Hercules.—Legend of the Cid.—Café.—Toledo Blades.—Virtues of the Tagus.—Sword of Boabdil.— Lunatic Asylum.—Don Quixote.—Crazy Editors.—Statistics.—Causes of Insanity.—Spanish Slowness and Temperance.—Sophomores 53 CHAPTER VII. LA MANCHA.—ANDALUSIA.