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"Ah, mademoiselle, look at me more, I am in nodthing like Jhermans." I could see the tall young stranger was a bit distressed that his Teutonic cast betrayed him. "My fadthur was Jherman my modthur is Castilian, my home is Lima, I am Peruvian, but I am educate in France. I am cosmopolite. And you air Frainch?" "I wonder where Mrs. Steele is?"

"How dare you; you are no gentleman!" "No, I am a loaver, Blanca, not von cold Nordthern zhentleman, who haf so leedle heart it can be hush, and zo dthin, poor blood it nefer rush fire at a voman's touch. Blanca, I haf been still for days, vaiting for dthis hour. I loaf you, darling, till all my life is nodthing but von longing I loaf you till I haf no conscience, no religion but my loaf.

"He tell me I act like I vas Capitan, dthen he call me 'damn. I tell him he vas a coachman!" The Baron looks surprised and a bit resentful at our laughter. "What made you call him a coachman?" Mrs. Steele is the first, as usual, to pull a straight face. "Madame forget I know not all Eenglish vords. I could dthink of nodthing more vorse I vas zo crazy vidth madness." "See the banana plantations!

"I could hear them, dear, if I were twenty." "Vhat bells ees dthat?" The Peruvian turns away his fine head to listen. "I hear nodthing." "You are the only one that hears them, Blanche; tell us what they say." "Even Longfellow can't do that," I answer, "and his sense was so acute and fine he heard them half across the world."

"Oh, nodthing much," says the Baron in his usual low and gentle tone; "I only zay if dthey effer come again I vill cut dthem up vidth a big knife and haf dthem boil for breakfast." "You barbarian!" laughs Mrs. Steele, rising. And then she looks about. "We might have a glimpse of the church before we go if there's time."

She is accustomed to these attacks." "If nodthing does gude dthen vhy stay you efer in dthat room; you vill be ill, too." "Oh, no," I say, "no fear of that." "But," he insists, "if you do nodthing only sit in dthat room, let me stay vidth her and you come out in dthe air. Madame Steele ees not like you; she like me vairy vell." "She likes me better, and I can't leave her."