Enough that he was there, and gazing at the spectacular procession as it filed past the posada.
He was regarding it with no eye of wonderment.

In all likelihood he had seen such before.

He could not have travelled far through Mexico without witnessing some ceremony of a similar kind.
Whether interested in this one or no he was soon notified that he was not regarding it in the manner proper or customary to the country.
Standing half behind one of the pillars of the hotel porch, he had not thought it necessary to take off his hat.

Perhaps placed in a more conspicuous position he would have done this.

Frank Hamersley--for such was his name--was not the sort of man to seek notoriety by an exhibition of bravado, and, being a Protestant of a most liberal creed, he would have shrunk from offending the slightest sensibilities of those belonging to an opposite faith--even the most bigoted Roman Catholic of that most bigoted land.