grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the Word of the Lord endureth forever.” On our return to the Fonda, breakfast being finished, we soon began to make the necessary preparations for our departure, and having settled our bill, and remunerated our redoubtable cicerone, the good-natured Mateo, in commendation of whose worthy qualities we signed a certificate which he is in the habit of requesting from all whom he guides through the Alhambra, we placed ourselves again in Bautista's famous coach, which, together with his horses, dog, and himself, he had bestowed in one of the posadas of the city during the time of our stay. We left the Fonda about eleven o'clock, and were, in due time, out of the city on our way to Malaga, through the lovely plain that surrounds Granada, the beauties of whose situation, and the magnificence of whose palaces we were both so soon to leave; and we cast back, as we departed, many a lingering look on the lovely landscape in our rear. In the afternoon of the third day, notwithstanding our slow pace, we arrived safe at Malaga, with much reason for gratitude in our preservation from all the perils of our journey, and glad once more to get back under the hospitable shelter of our Uncle. An extract from the Private Journal at this time reveals the growth of the inner man, and the concern he had for the improvement of his spiritual part, while his senses and intellect were exercised in viewing and describing the things of the outward world. April 9th, Sabbath evening.-On Thursday evening I had the pain of parting with my beloved brother. He embarked on board the English steamer "Transit," for Gibraltar and Cadiz, from whence he will take another boat for Seville, and in the course of two or three weeks he expects to embark again at Cadiz for England by the next steamer. I had intended the night before he left to have gone with him as far as Seville, and to have returned in the next boat; but I awaked on Thursday morning with the symptoms of an asthmatic attack, which has prevented me from taking this pleasant tour, and, at the same time, enjoying for a longer period of time the society of my beloved brother. This is a grievous disappointment, but I hope it may be for my best. good; and the Lord is able to raise matter from our bitterest trials and disappointments, to fill our souls with his praise and love. We have been together constantly for the last five or six months, and for nearly three months and a half under the roof of our hospitable Uncle. Now that he is gone, and I am left alone, without the society and Christian fellowship I have so long enjoyed, I miss him exceedingly, and feel a painful void the more so, since in this place there is no other Christian society with which I can mingle, and have communion of spirit. But it is a separation that was necessary, and one to which I have been for a long time looking forward; and now, let me make diligent improvement of the privileges that may ever remain to me. Let me use much the weapon of 66 All prayer, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." Oh blessed Jesus, adorable Redeemer, be thou unto me a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Draw me to thyself, and illumine my soul with the blessed light of thy countenance. Raise me above all the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and let no sin have dominion over me. Ever grant me grace to resist all my easily besetting sins, and to obtain an entire victory over them, and, finally, "to beat down Satan under my feet." Act but the gentle infant's part, No fondest parent's melting breast Yearns like thy God's to make thee bless'd: This task no labor will require. Shake from thy soul, o'erwhelmed, oppressed, MARTIN LUTHER. CHAPTER VIII. ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOCIETY, MANNERS, AND MORALS IN SPAIN. And here and there, as up the crags you spring, These are memorials frail of murderous wrath; At the time of our residence in the south of Spain, the condition of the country was very much the same as when Gil Blas of Santillana, wishing, as he said, to avoid Scylla, struck upon Charybdis, and fell into the hands of the robbers of the Subterranean Cave; and the materials of which the robber-bands were composed at the time of our observations upon society and life in Andalusia, were not essentially dif ferent from that notable knot of highwaymen, or ladrones, among which it was the fortune of Gil Blas to be thrown assassins, criminals escaped from jus tice, disgraced officers, runaway soldiers, mis-educated and cast-off sons of wealthy families; sometimes men unfortunate in business or love, soured and misanthropic from failures and disappointments; now and then a recreant friar, along with villains who had served their time as contrabandistas, vagabond paisanos, and loafers of the city and village. The rule that He may keep who has the power, then prevailed to such a degree, that travellers and natives were naturally under black-mail tribute to lawless hordes of banditti, who roamed the country and spoiled whom they pleased. We knew of a man in the very city of Malaga, who, acting as an agent of the robbers, would give to travellers, for a sum of money according to their ability, a sort of paper-passport, that would ensure them safe conduct through all parts, of Andalusia. If robbers appeared, and this paper were produced, signed by the well-known name or sign of their city confederate, the traveller would pass unmolested. Even for the Governor himself, it was said this paper would be as good a safe-guard as a file of soldiers. It will be at once seen how the personal narrative of the present chapter confirms these statements. Though not all within the proper field of biography, the matter of it is in part of such thrilling interest to the general reader, and withal so strikingly illustrative of life in Spain, and of the mind and heart of the |