The young farmers galloped about to shew the beauty of their horses, and their skill in managing them. Their dresses were very fantastical, and the trappings of the horses sufficiently cumbrous. These singularities, however, only served to display the national peculiarities more strikingly. The toys perhaps of every nation offertraits of national character; and I could not help remarking, on the present occasion, that almost every one, exhibited at this fair, bore some allusion to that illicit intercourse between the sexes, which forms the great stain upon the moral character of the country. Horns of various shapes, with bells, and inscriptions of indecent import, were most prevalent, and the presenting them to each other, with sarcastic insinuations, appeared Nike Air Max the most universal species of wit. A marked deference was paid to the female sex even by the peasantry, which shewed that a degree of gallantry is customary with this nation, which is too often dispensed with in other countries.I heard' that two North Face Outlet Store assassinations had occurred at this The North Face Outlet fair that day, both caused by jealousy, not between husbands and the lovers of their wives, but between young men who sighed for the same married woman. It appears most extraordinary, but it is nevertheless notoriously the fact, that though husbands feel no jealousy on account of their wives, yet that this powerful passion should be felt in the most acute manner between men who wish to supplant each other in the affections of the same female; and that other parts of a family, so far from feeling resentment towards the man who addresses their mother orsister; treat him with as much kindness and attention as if he were connected with them by legal and honourable ties, or paid a compliment to the family by selecting a member of it for the object of his attachment. These kind of attachments are much more durable, and more assiduously cultivated, than affection between a married couple. Nike Australia Inconstancy to a favourite mistress, perhaps the wife of a friend, is deemed a greater disgrace to the party than any matrimonial infidelity, and more effectually excludes a man from the future confidence and fespect of the ladies, all of whom are jealous of the privileges of their sex, and preserve no terms with a man who is unfaithful to his fair friend. The females of all classes, considering their The North Face Outlet Store husbands as beings of no consequence, expect a degree of attention from a cortejo, which a Spaniard can alone pay; and the consequence is, that foreigners, especially Englishmen, are by no means favourites with the Spanish ladies.These attachments between the sexes are notorious to all the acquaintance of the parties, and a breach between two lovers interests the family and friends to produce a reconciliation. The connexion is, however, conducted with outward decorum, and the cortejo, North Face Outlet though Nike Shoes Australia ever attentive to the movements and wishes of the lady, observes be fore company the most distant and respectful behaviour; but should he fail in attending her to the public walks, or the private parties, where she Oakley Sunglasses visits, it would be deemed an enormous offence, only to be pardoned after a long period of submission and penitence.The disgusting spectacle exhibited in England and France, of meretricious beauty decked out for sale, is not to be seen in Spain, unless perhaps, and that rarely, in the sea ports. From this circumstance I have Nike Air Max 90 heard sensible Spaniards, who have been in England, contend