다행이랄까?"흐음 태초의 시작

다행이랄까?"흐음 태초의 시작

they exacted! They were men?those conquistadores?whatever else they were?big, cruel, heroic fellows like Bastida, Nicuesa, Balboa, Pedrarias the Assassin, and the rest. They oppressed the natives terribly, yet they paved the way for civilization, after all. The Spaniards did try to uplift the Indians, you know. And the life in the colonies was like that in old Spain, only more romantic and picturesque. Why, whenever I pass through these Latin-American cities I see, in place of the crumbling ruins, grand cathedrals and palaces; in place of the squalid beggars idling about the market-places I see velvet-clad dons and high- born ladies.""Aren't there any beautiful ladies left?""A few, perhaps.""What happened to the cathedrals and the velvet fellows and all that?""Oh, the old state of affairs couldn't last forever.