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Though only a week has passed, already Don Pedro would take oath that I love him well. Early this morning I heard him underneath my window; and I was right glad of the chance to smile on him from behind the protecting bars. This meeting had not been of Doña Orosia's contriving, so I thought I would use it for my own ends. I vowed to him that I was unhappy which was true.
Yerba had put it aside with as it seemed to him at the moment an almost too pronounced indifference and an indifference that was strongly contrasted to Dona Anna's eagerly expressed enthusiasm over the offering, and her ultimate supplications to Paul and her brother to admire its beauties and the wonderful taste of the donor.
The observations just made are very similar to those that were addressed by Doña Isidora to the little Leona, one day when they were left alone. The others had gone about their usual occupation of bark-cutting, and these, of course, remained at home to take care of the house and cook the dinner.
This young man has in his pocket, at this moment, a written direction of the route to the Golden Valley; moreover, he is passionately in love with Dona Rosarita, for whom he would give all the gold in this valley, or all the gold in the world, and all the horses in Sonora, if he had them. Moreover, his object in coming to the Hacienda del Venado, was to make himself its future proprietor."
Doña Victorina, after passing her first, second, third and fourth youth in fishing in the sea of men for the object of her dreams, had at last to content herself with what fortune cared to give her.
The landlady told them that some one had died in the house and one of the drunkards, who was a student of medicine, said he would like to view the corpse. He was persuaded to change his mind and everybody went back to his place. The next day Manuel's sisters were notified and Petra was buried.... On the day after the interment Manuel left the boarding-house and said farewell to Dona Casiana.
Some wooden barns, a corral, an adobe house, and outhouses marked the place as one of the more ambitious ranches of the valley. An old Mexican came forward with a face wreathed in smiles. "Buenos, Doña Maria," he cried, in greeting. "Buenos, Antonio. This gentleman is Mr. Richard Muir." "Buenos, señor. A friend of Doña Maria is a friend of Antonio."
"We have a question to ask of the gallant Sir Peter Brome and the Dona Margaret, his affianced. Is it still their desire to take each other in marriage?" Now Peter looked at Margaret, and Margaret looked at Peter, and there was that in their eyes which both of them understood, for he answered in a clear voice: "Your Majesty, that is the dearest wish of both of us."
I only learned that for at least five mixed reasons, none of which impressed me profoundly, Doña Rita had started at a moment’s notice from Paris with nothing but a dressing-bag, and permitting Rose to go and visit her aged parents for two days, and then follow her mistress.
The hour struck at last. If I could have plunged into a light wave and been transported instantaneously to Doña Rita’s door it would no doubt have saved me an infinity of pangs too complex for analysis; but as this was impossible I elected to walk from end to end of that long way.
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