text:  A Spaniard writing for Spaniards would of course take it for granted that his countrymen were acquainted with those very facts and allusions which Le Sage sometimes formally endeavours to explain and sometimes is unable to detect; while a writer conscious as the French author was of a very imperfect acquaintance with the language and usages of Spain would never indulge in those little circumstantial touches which a Spaniard could not help inserting