Lola Montez Conquers The Spaniards (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
All I could think of was safety, how to acquire it, how to salvage some part of a life. Be busy, keep moving, put away sorrow until it could be digested and somehow overcome. Or at least subdued. It was mid-afternoon as I hastened to the Spanish consul’s office, fingers crossed that the man himself would be there and ready to listen to a woman in distress. He was. I spent several minutes finding out whatever I could about him; before long, he had revealed that he was a Cristino supporter and had been throughout the war. So I knew how to pitch it. I used my most elegant Spanish. “Señor, I throw myself upon your mercy. I am the widow of General Diego de León, recently executed in Madrid. Do you know about this tragic event?” His face blanched and he nodded, told me the news had come through that week. “I am destitute and have fled our country,” I said, holding back tears. I told him that before my marriage I had been a principal dancer from Seville, often playing in the capital.
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