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"Interested in him?" he cried, starting violently and letting his cigarette fall to the ground. His face grew ashen pale and his right hand involuntarily went to the knife in his sash. "No, no, it cannot be!" he muttered excitedly. "Are you sure of what you say, Doña Fernandez? Tell me that it is not true that it is a lie!" he almost hissed, his eyes glowing with the fires of passion and jealousy.
While you were talking, at the same time that I inwardly deplored errors so great, I could not but admire, I will confess it frankly, the loftiness of expression, the prodigious fluency, the surprising method of your reasoning, the force of your arguments. What a head, Senora Dona Perfecta, what a head your young nephew has!
To think that we have been petting the worst of them as if he were General Castro or Juan Alvarado. To think, my Eulogia! that thirsty wild-cat has had his arm about thy waist more times than I can count." "He danced very well aha!" Aunt Anastacia gurgled like an idiot. Doña Pomposa gave a terrific shriek, which Eulogia cut in two with her hand. A man had crawled out of the brush near them.
"For the sake of our sovereign lord, I will not fail," replied Quijada. "So far as she herself is concerned, she is one of those women whose beauty I acknowledge, but to whom I am indifferent. More modest manners please me better." "You are thinking of Dona Magdalena de Ulloa," observed the Queen, "you poor loyal widower, while the loveliest of wives still lives.
Rey took from the girl's hand a fragment of a newspaper, on the margin of which he read these words: "They say you are going away. I shall die if you do." When he returned to the dining-room Uncle Licurgo looked in at the door and asked: "At what hour do you want the horse?" "At no hour," answered Rey quickly. "Then you are not going to-night?" said Dona Perfecta.
Don Manuel informed us that, though a Spaniard by birth, he had spent so many years in England that all his tastes and sympathies had become thoroughly Anglicised; that his second wife, Dona Antonia's mother, had been an Englishwoman; that he was an enthusiastic naturalist; and that he had chosen the banks of the Congo for his home principally in order that he might be able to study fully and at his leisure the fauna and flora of that little-known region; adding parenthetically that he had found the step not only a thoroughly agreeable but also a fairly profitable one, by doing a little occasional business with the whites who frequented the river on the one hand and with the natives on the other.
And the Cid gave order that they should be lodged in the Garden of Villa Nueva, and supplied with all things in abundance. XIV. When eight days were overpast the Bishop Don Hieronymo married the Infantes of Aragon and Navarre to the daughters of the Cid in this manner: the Infante Don Ramiro of Navarre to Dona Elvira; and the Infante Don Sancho of Aragon to Dona Sol.
Then everything was motionless again; an interval of perfect peace settled upon the garden. It was broken by the apparition of Brace under the balcony, and the black-veiled and flowered head of Dona Isabel from the curtain above. "Crazy boy!" "Senorita!" "Hush! I am coming down!" "You? But Dona Ursula!" "There is no more Dona Ursula!" "Well your duenna, whoever she is!" "There is no duenna!"
When at last she addressed herself to John in a third letter, which this time she dictated to Hannibal as her heart prompted, she received an answer, it is true, though not from him, but from Dona Magdalena. In kind words this lady urged her not to write to "her" Dona Magdalena's son in future.
The priest wore the brown robe of his order to the ball, and John his claw-hammer. They both looked out of place among those birds of brilliant plumage. Doña Martina, large and coffee-colored, with a mustache and many jewels, sat against the wall with other señoras of her kind. They wore heavy red and yellow satins, but the girls wore light silks that fluttered as they walked.
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