In his desire to complain he forgot the bitter silence he had imposed on himself in his daughter's presence.
"You will hardly recognise our Corpus," he said to Gabriel.

"Of all that we remember nothing remains but the famous tapestries that are hung outside the Cathedral.

The giants are not drawn up before the Puerta del Perdon, and the procession is shorn of its glory." The Chapel-master also complained bitterly.
"And the mass, Senor Esteban?
Just think what a mass for such a solemn festivity! Four instruments from outside the house, and a Rossini mass of the lightest description so as not to cost much.

It would have been far better for this to have played the organ alone." According to an ancient custom, on the vesper before the feast, the band of the Academy of Infantry played in the evening before the Cathedral.

All Toledo came to hear the serenade, which was an event in the monotonous life of the town, and from the province of Madrid many strangers came for the bull-fight on the following day.
Mariano, the bell-ringer, invited his friends to listen to the serenade from the Greco-Roman gallery on the principal front.