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Boothby's Little Gal Nell, who was also Mr. Boothby's legal wife Pearl, and when the curtain went down, listened respectfully to Mr. Boothby's lecture on Dr. Wintergreen's Tonic as a cure for tape-worms, which he illustrated by horrible pallid objects curled in bottles of yellowing alcohol. Carol shook her head. "Juanita is right. I'm a fool. Holiness of the drama! Bernard Shaw!
Magdalena was soon beneath her father's roof, soon in the arms of her cousin Juanita. Long did she resist the importunities of Julio; for though innocent in fact, judicially she stood convicted of a capital offence.
"I said to him: 'Juanita is no longer a child; Marcos is honest, he will not have deceived her; he must have told her that such a marriage is a mere question of politics; that there is no thought of love." He glanced sharply at her. It was almost prophetic; for Marcos had used the very words.
Perro usually walked gravely to her and stood in front of her awaiting a jest whenever she came. She looked round. Perro was not there. "Where is Marcos?" she asked, taking the empty chair. "He has been sent for to the valley. He has gone." "Gone!" echoed Juanita, standing up again. She went to the stone balustrade of the terrace and looked over into the darkness.
"Soft o'er the fountain, lingering falls the southern moon " "Why is it that convalescent soldiers want the very most sentimental ditties that can be sung? "Far o'er the mountain, breaks the day too soon!" "I know that string is going to snap presently! Then where would I buy guitar strings in a land without a port? "Nita! Juanita! Ask thy soul if we should part Nita! Juanita!
Neither said anything except those conventional words of farewell which from constant use have lost any meaning they ever had. Sarrion gathered the reins in his gloved hands, glanced back over the collar which Juanita had vigorously pulled up about his ears, and with a nod, drove away into the night. When Marcos, who walked slowly up the slope, returned to the house he found it in darkness.
"Where is it in the foot?" "It's all over, I think; in my head and everywhere. Hush, Juanita; never mind." Mrs. Benoit, however, tried the soothing effect of a long gentle brushing of Daisy's head. This lasted till Daisy said she could bear it no longer. She was restless. "Will my love hear a hymn?" "It will wake papa." Mrs. Benoit cared nothing for that. Her care was her poor little charge.
In his hotel, while impatiently awaiting an answer from Penny, Dundee passed the time by scanning all the New York papers of Thursday and Friday, on the chance of meeting with significant revelations concerning the private life of Dexter Sprague or Juanita Leigh Selim united by death in the press, at least.
We felt pretty sure, therefore, that we had no foes on our right, or that we had left any behind us. Our great object, however, was to find some Indians who could give us information either of Juanita or Rochford; whether they were together, or whether either one or the other had been seen. From what I had heard of the Indians, I had very little hope of success.
To have gone any other way would have been to make himself visible from one part or another of the convent grounds, and Evasio Mon was in that garden. Both Sor Teresa and Evasio Mon saw Juanita emerge from the nut trees and join her friend, but neither appeared to have noticed anything unusual.
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