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"Ay, señorita mia! thou canst put honey on thy tongue. God of my life, señorita I fling my heart at thy feet!" "I fear to break it, señor, for I have faith that it is made of thin glass. It would cut my feet. I like better this smooth floor. Who is that standing by the window? He has not danced to-night?" "Don Pablo Ignestria of Monterey.

Hudson, with an oath, leaped backward, sprang upon the window-seat, and smashing the pane with his powerful hand disappeared before the startled men thought of stopping him. "Catch him! Catch him!" cried Ignestria, excitedly. "It is John Power. He stood me up a year ago."

I have purposely come from Monterey to say it." Eulogia was looking at him with angry eyes, her brain on fire. But curiosity triumphed, and she put her hand on his shoulder as the musicians swept their guitars with lithe fingers, scraped their violins, and began the waltz. "Eulogia!" exclaimed Ignestria; "dost thou suspect why I have returned?"

"You are welcome, welcome, Pablo," said Doña Luisa. "Go to the dining room and get a glass of aguardiente; then come back and dance until dawn." Ignestria left the room with Diego Quijas, but returned in a few moments and walked directly over to Eulogia, ignoring the men who stood about her. "Give me this dance," he whispered eagerly. "I have something to say to thee.

May the tears never dim them while they shine for us below," and a caballero pushed back his chair, leaned forward, and touched her glass with his, then went down on one knee and drank the red wine. Eulogia threw him a little absent smile, sipped her wine, and went on talking to Ignestria in her soft monotonous voice. "My friend Graciosa La Cruz went a few weeks ago to Monterey for a visit.

"Are not they handsome?" "They are not to be compared with the women of Monterey since you ask me." "Because they find the men of San Luis more gallant than the Señor Don Pablo Ignestria!" "Do they? One, I believe, asked to have me introduced to her!" "True, señor. I wished to meet you that you might fall in love with me, and that the ladies of San Luis might have their vengeance."

Oh, Mother of God, why dost thou not soften the heart of the wicked " Eulogia slipped out of the window, and went into the mission gardens. She walked slowly through the olive groves, lifting her arms to part the branches where the little purple spheres lay in their silver nests. Suddenly she came face to face with Pablo Ignestria.

"From Don Pablo Ignestria, my baby," she said. "Oh, what a man! what a caballero! And so smart. He waited an hour by the creek in the mission gardens until he saw thy mother go out, and then he brought the note to me. He begged to see thee, but I dared not grant that, niñita, for thy mother will be back in ten minutes."

Thou lookest as if thou wouldst fight with thy little fists." "Bring him to me." Don Carmelo walked obediently over to Don Pablo, although burning with jealousy. "Señor, at your service," he said. "I wish to introduce you to the most charming señorita in the room." "Which?" asked Ignestria, incuriously. Don Carmelo indicated Eulogia with a grand sweep of his hand. "That little thing?

Her scruples vanished, and, after an entire day of agonized composition, she sent these lines: "You can come back to San Luis Obispo. Another year had passed. No answer had come from Pablo Ignestria. Nor had he returned to San Luis Obispo.