text:  The ladies leaned forward over the window-sill enjoying the freshness of the night; and one of them the lively brunette who had taken a part in the seguidilla plucked some sprays of jasmine which reared their pointed leaves and white blossoms in front of the window and began to entwine them in the hair of her companion--a pale and somewhat pensive beauty in whose golden locks and blue eyes the Gothic blood of old Spain was yet to be traced