It was a time when young English gentlemen 'presented letters', smoked cigars with the local Marques, visited gentlemen's clubs and the opera, took shelter from the rain in estancios de tabacos, read Don Quixote, breakfasted on chocolate and toast whilst smoking a cigarillo, and were ardent members of the "drawing-room of Sevillian society" - the afternoon walk along the pleasant shore of the Guadalquivir. Gayley employed the term " Sevillised Life " to describe his winter stay in the city. In a book published in 1853 the author C.J. He who Seville has not seen, has not seen a marvel great "Quien no ha visto Sevilla, No ha visto maravilla"
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