[The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibanez]@TWC D-Link bookThe Shadow of the Cathedral CHAPTER IV 8/43
You see these red ones? These only cost six reals, and with them you can visit the sacristies, the wardrobe, the chapels of Don Alvaro de Luna and of Cardinal Albornoz, and the Chapter-house, with its two rows of portraits of the archbishops which are wonders.
Who would not scrape their purse to see such prodigies ?" Afterwards he added, showing the last ticket book with contempt: "These white ones are only worth two reals.
They are to see the giants and the bells.
We sell a great many of those to the lower class who come to the Cathedral on feast days.
Could you believe it, but many of the Protestants and Jews call this a robbery? The other day three soldiers came from the Academy with some country folks to see the giants, and they made quite a scandalous scene because we would not let them in for an old song.
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