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After it was over Rube and I mounted two of their horses, and rode on with the rest of them to San Miguel; but before we started off we told our story to the Cap, and he sent a couple of men back with a dispatch to the general, asking for five hundred men to destroy El Zeres' band at a blow. We stopped at Pepita's, and I never see a girl have a much worse scare than we gave her.
When he entered on Spain and his recollections of what he had seen there, the girl's heart throbbed, and her pale face grew whiter still with the passionate thrill that stirred her. The old blood was in her veins yet, and, though modified, and in some sense transformed, she was still Pepita's daughter and the child of Andalusia.
Only Pepita sat without color or applause only Pepita's fan was motionless amidst all the fluttering though her breast moved up and down, and the throbbing in her side was like the beating of a hammer. She was speaking to herself, though her lips were closed; she was speaking to Sebastiano. "He will look soon," she was saying. "He will look as he did that first day. My eyes will make him look.
Yes, it was the rector's daughter whom he ought to marry, but it was Pepita's whom he loved. Yet how would things go with such a perplexing iconoclast at the head of affairs?
It was enough to irritate any handsome fellow this one had thought to come home to a squalid place after enjoyment, and be forced to face poverty and children and a haggard wife with large staring eyes, red with weeping. Yes, Pepita and José remembered all this, and upon Pepita's character it had left curious traces.
Again Bessie looked down at the papers and resumed: "'Before I breathe my last, Dick, I want to tell you that I have discovered the lead to the old Esmeralda mine; the enclosed chart will guide you to it. Tell my sister that half of it belongs to her and the other half to Pepita's child if you are able to find her.
Chico had always loved his nest, but, with the appearance of two eggs under Pepita's breast, he found it difficult to leave, even on necessary flights.
You'll say it fast enough. That's the way with women." A bewitching little smile slowly curved Pepita's lips and crept into her eyes. "I am not a woman," she said, looking out at the sun-warmed vineyards. "He said so himself. Felipe said, 'You are not a woman; you are a witch, and no one can touch your heart or conquer you. I will be a witch."
"But do you not see the mother in her, Josephine? I do, painfully; and the mother was such a horror! Leam is just like her. She will grow her exact counterpart" "A bad model enough," said Edgar; "but this face is not bad. It has more in it than poor old Pepita's. How fat she was!" "So will Leam be when she is as old," said Adelaide quietly. "And do you think these dark people ever look clean?
If that isn't doña Pepita's place, at least we'll find out where we are." He pulled the boat around, and gradually they made their way through the treetops toward the light. They struck several snags, orchard fences, perhaps, or submerged walls but the light kept growing brighter. Finally it had become a large red square across which dark forms were moving.
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