At half past ten, Don Otavio issues from the house,…

At half past ten, Don Otavio issues from the house, splendid like the moon, all in white silk, his silvery hair brushed upwards, a Charvet tie over his holy shirt, bearing nothing.

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Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller’s Tale from Mexico (1960), p.158

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