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"Doña Chonita is of your opinion, coronel, that California was the direct gift of heaven to the Spaniards, and that the Americans cannot have us." Castro raised his glass to the comadre. "Doña Chonita has the loyal bosom of all Californian women.
The thing itself is curious, and quite novel to an Englishman of the present day. The godfathers and godmothers of a child become, by their participation in the ceremony, relations to one another and to the priest who baptizes the child, and call one another ever afterwards compadre and comadre. Just such a relationship was once expressed by the word "gossip," "God-sib," that is "akin in God."
BARATILLO, a Rag-fair, market of odds and ends; see p. 169. BARBACOA, whence English "barbecue;" see p. 95; a native Haitian word. BARRANCCA, a ravine. CALZONCILLOS, drawers. CAPA, a cloak. CAYO, a coral-reef. CHAPARREROS, over-trousers of goatskin with the hair on, used in riding. CHINGUERITO, Indian-corn brandy. COMPADRE. COMADRE; French, compère, commère; see p. 250.
"Thou wilt, my Eustaquia. Doña Chonita is no pudding-brained girl. She needs no dueña." "I know that; but it is not that I am thinking of. Suppose some one sees you; thou knowest the inflexibility of our conventions." "You forget that we are comadre and compadre. Our privileges are many." He abruptly dismissed the intimate "thou," with his usual American perversity. "True; I had forgotten.
Bime by I marrying too, and she is comadre godmother, you call, no? to my little one, and steel I living with her, and in few years my husband and little one die and I love her children like they are my own, and her too; we grow old together. "You never see the San Ysidro rancho? It is near to San Diego and have many, many leagues.
He passed his hand over his wife's long white fingers, but did not offer her any other caress in my presence. "How dost thou feel?" "Well; but I shall be lonely. Do not stay long at the church, no? How glad I am that Chonita came in time for the christening! What a beautiful comadre she will be! I have just seen her. Ay, poor Diego! he will fall in love with her; and what then?"
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