midday
The people are half Moorish still , and from the barred windows look out deep almond eyes and patient faces that have no European feature . The narrow streets were empty as the travellers entered the town , and the clatter of the mules slipping and stumbling on the cobble stones brought but few to the doors of the low-built houses . To enter Ronda from the south the traveller must traverse the Moorish town , which is divided from the Spanish quarter by a cleft in the great rock that renders the town impregnable to all attack . Having crossed the bridge spanning the great gorge into which the sun never penetrates even at midday , the party emerged into the broader streets of the more modern town , and , turning to the right through a high gateway , found themselves in a barrack yard of the Guardias Civiles . ` Le plus grand art d'un habile homme est celui de savoir cacher son habileté . ' WHEN Conyngham awoke after a night conscientiously spent in that profound slumber which waits on an excellent digestion and a careless heart , he found the prison attendant at his bedside . A less easy-going mind would perhaps have leapt to some nervous conclusion at the sight of this fierce-visaged janitor , who , however , carried nothing more deadly in his hand than a card .