The Alhambra . PALACE OF THE ALHA^IBRA 71 added, that there was often heard at night, in the court ofLions, a low confused sound, resembUng the murmuring of amultitude, and now and then a faint tinkling, like the distantclank of chains. These sounds were made by the spiritsof the murdered Abencerrages, who nightly haunt the scene. f ,• ??vi»««!&.,*<.:;.- of their suffering and invoke the vengeance of Heaven onthei-r destroyer. The sounds in question had no doubt been produced, as Ihad afterwards an opportunity of ascertaining, by the bubblingcurrents and tinkUng falls of water conducted und
The Alhambra . PALACE OF THE ALHA^IBRA 71 added, that there was often heard at night, in the court ofLions, a low confused sound, resembUng the murmuring of amultitude, and now and then a faint tinkling, like the distantclank of chains. These sounds were made by the spiritsof the murdered Abencerrages, who nightly haunt the scene. f ,• ??vi»««!&.,*<.:;.- of their suffering and invoke the vengeance of Heaven onthei-r destroyer. The sounds in question had no doubt been produced, as Ihad afterwards an opportunity of ascertaining, by the bubblingcurrents and tinkUng falls of water conducted under the 72 THE ALHAMBRA pavement through pipes and channels to supply the fountains ;but I was too considerate to intimate such an idea to thehumble chronicler of the Alhambra. Encouraged by my easy credulity, Mateo gave me the follow-ing as an undoubted fact, which he had from his grandfather :— There was once an invalid soldier, who had charge of theAlhambra to show it to strangers; as he was one evening,
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