Crossword-Solution: ORAS 4 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Who can rival the English aristocrat in lofty stature, in dignified bearing, in strength of hand, and valour of heart? Who rides a nobler horse? Who has a firmer seat? And who more lovely than his wife, or sister, or daughter? But with respect to the Spanish aristocracy, the ladies and gentlemen, the cavaliers and señoras, I believe the less that is said of them on the points to which I have just alluded the better.

Here Ferdinand the Seventh spent his latter days, surrounded by lovely señoras and Andalusian bull-fighters: but as the German Schiller has it in one of his tragedies: “The happy days in fair Aranjuez, Are past and gone.” When the sensual king went to his dread account, royalty deserted it, and it soon fell into decay.

Other distinguished citizens followed his lead to the extent of whatever loose coin they had convenient, while some of the fair and fashionable señoras were moved, in imitation, to fling a jewel or a ring or two at the feet of the Marguerite—who was, according to the bills, Mlle.

But, ah, Señor Kelley—the señoras with hair of much goldness, and admirable fatness—they are magnificas! Muy magnificas!” Kelley went to the nearest telephone booth and called up McCrary’s café, far up on Broadway.

They have sent theirs to be blown about, like the light fragments of a wreck, oras et littora circum.