"And, yes, I found it perfectly dignified, perfectly religious, without a suspicion of levity or indecorum. This consecration of the dance, this turning of a possible vice into a means of devotion, this bringing of the people's art, the people's passion, which in Seville is dancing, into the church, finding it a place there, is precisely one of those acts of divine worldly wisdom which the Church has so often practised in her conquest of the world." P. 55. "the fandango": I found the following reference to the fandango in Philip Thicknesse's remarkably interesting and exceedingly curious book, "A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain" (London; 1777): "In no part of the world, therefore, are women more caressed and attended to, than in Spain. Their deportment in public is grave and modest; yet they are very much addicted to pleasure; nor is there scarce one among them that cannot, nay that will not dance the _Fandango_ in private, either in the decent or the indecent manner. I have seen it danced both ways, by a pretty woman, than which nothing can be more _immodestly agreeable_; and I was shewn a young lady at _Barcelona_ who in the midst of this dance ran out of the room, telling her partner she could _stand_ it no longer;--he ran after her, to be sure, and must be answerable for the consequences. I find in the music of the _Fandango_, written under one bar, _Salido_, which signifies _going out_; it is where the woman is to part a little from her partner, and to move slowly by herself; and I suppose it was at _that bar the_ lady was so overcome, as to determine her not to return. The words _Perra Salida_ should therefore be placed at that bar, when the ladies dance it in the high _goût_."