"...ladies in mantillas..and dark optics beneath drooping eyelids; it is good to see how light-footedly they bear themselves, with the strutting gait of pigeons, how they flirt, and with what passion ans seemliness their eternal wooings are fraught!"
An illustration from the book "Letters From Spain" written and illustrated by Karel Capek, translated by Paul Selver, published by George Bles, London, 1931. Capek, (1890-1938), the Czech writer best known for his plays, wrote a number of travel books in an amused and urbane style which suffused his accompanying drawings as well. He invented the word 'robot'.

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