First Sentence

"When, in the company with Mrs. Lewis, I boarded the S. S. Rotterdam on February 6th and sailed for the port of Cadiz, it was not the Spain that had been so cruel to my forebears ares that I cherished visiting, but a romantic Spain, a country of charm and beauty and song; of beautiful senoritas and brave and dashing caballeros; a Spain of magnificent castles and brilliant sunsets; of moonlit nights with reflection of the stars glittering like myriad of diamonds upon the matchless blue of the Mediterranean."