Excerpt from In Sunny Spain With Pilarica and Rafael Tia Marta, huddled over the big chest in the duskiest corner Of all, could not have seen the embroidery well, even though Pilarica's eager ness thrust it close against the squinting red eyes; but she scolded, for Tia Marta enjoyed scolding, quite as Sharply as if every moist little stitch had been measured and found wanting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.