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She felt herself breathlessly hanging on the speaker's next words. "Why, that's the young man of the fonda, who picked up your fan," said Carroll, "isn't it?" "Perhaps," said Maruja, indifferently. She would have given worlds to have been able to turn coldly and stare at him at that moment with the others, but she dared not.
The impresor had been ravished at the sight of a beautiful girl a mere muchacha yet of a beauty that deprived the senses this angel clearly the daughter of his friend! Here was the old miracle of the orange in full fruition and the lovely fragrant blossom all on the same tree at the fonda. And this had been kept from him! "Yes, it was but a thing of yesterday," said the senora, obviously pleased.
No doubt the pelado to whom I was indebted for my wound is among the ruffians who crowd into the windows; but I know the lawlessness of the place too well to apply for justice. We hear the same shouts in another street; again in the plaza; and Gode and I re-enter the Fonda with a conviction that our appearance in public might be attended with danger. We resolve, therefore, to keep within doors.
By religion, by nationality, by tradition, the Spanish girl was the purely convent product: womanhood protected by a ten-foot wall. When the wall fell away, she was helpless as a hot-house flower set out amid violent winds. Diagonally across the Plaza from the Governor's Palace stands the old Fonda, or Exchange Hotel, whence came the long caravans of American traders on the Santa Fe Trail.
"Where could I see them?" Gerald asked. "I think that they will be now in Jeres, if that would suit you, senor; but if not I could doubtless find a party of men in this town equally ready for your business." "Jeres will do very well for me," Gerald said; "I shall be travelling that way and will put up at the Fonda where we stopped as we came through. When are you starting?"
"You can stop at the fonda, about two miles further on, and get your supper and bed, if you like." The young man slipped from the table, and lounged to the door. The Doctor put his hands in his pockets and followed him. The young man, as if in unconscious imitation, had put HIS hands in his pockets also, and looked at him. "I'll hear from you, then, when you are in San Jose?" said Dr.
In due time we found our stray, hitched to and started, but it was hard pulling and the exhausted oxen had to come to frequent halts. At last, just as I was beginning to feel tired, we came to the fonda.
One day Clayley and I were sitting over our wine, along with a gay party of friends, in the Fonda de Diligencias, the principal hotel of Jalapa, when Jack touched me on the shoulder, and whispered in my ear: "Captain, there's a Mexican wants to see ye." "Who is it?" I demanded, somewhat annoyed at the interruption. "It's the brother," replied Jack, still speaking in a whisper. "The brother!
Ramierez kept a fonda or hostelry on a small estate, the last of many leagues formerly owned by the Spanish grantee, his landlord, and had a wife of some small coquetries and redundant charms. Gambling took place at the fonda, and it was said the common prejudice against the Mexican did not, however, prevent the American from trying to win his money.
The subject was never again broached, and we returned in silence to the fonda . . . This is a most extraordinary character, and the more I see of him the more am I puzzled. He appears acquainted with everybody and everything, but apparently unknown to every one himself. Borrow confesses that he was at a loss to know how to commence operations in Seville.
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