Identifier: threevassargirls02cham (find matches)
Title: Three Vassar girls abroad. Rambles of three college girls on a vacation trip through France and Spain for amusement and instruction. With their haps and mishaps
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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GRANADA. 143

pavilion, called the Tocador de Reina, and for days afterward found
added pleasure in discovering the beauties of the isolated towers and
smaller buildings in the vicinity. Irving's Tales of the Alhambra
was their guide-book, they sought out with avidity every place which
he had mentioned, and bought photographs with which to " inter-lay"
their copies of his works.
Lord Gubbins and Mr. Featherstonhaugh were also in Granada,
and often they formed but one party. Maud self-sacrificingly aided her
sister to entertain his lordship, in order that Saint might stroll about
with Mr. Featherstonhaugh. The Torre de la Vela was one of their
favorite resorts at sunset. Here hangs the great alarm bell with the
silver tongue, a bell which is kept clanging on the anniversary of the
taking of Granada, for it is believed that the damsel who rings it upon
that day will secure a husband within the year. When on the sec-
ond of January, 1492, the city was surrendered to the Spaniards, Fer-
dind and Isabella waited without with the army until they saw their

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