Several of the rooms also communicated directly with each other, and, through low windows, gave on the veranda in front; for the house was merely a comparatively narrow array of apartments between two broad verandas, where most of the living, including much of the sleeping, was done.
Logically, there can be nothing uglier than a Spanish-American dwelling of this type.

But, as a matter of fact, they appear seductively beautiful.

The thick white walls acquire a certain softness of tone; the surface scales off here and there, and cracks and crevices appear.

In a damp country, like England, they would soon become covered with moss; but moss is not to be had in this region, though one were to offer for it the price of the silk velvet, triple ply, which so much resembles it.

Nevertheless, there are compensations.