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She even inclosed a note to him, in which she thanked him from her overflowing mother's heart for all he had done for her only child, and adjured him to be very prudent. He could make nothing out of it, and Pilar declared that she was equally in the dark.
He was at this time a bright young lawyer of good ability and character. Ibid. Ibid., 849. Ibid., 1179. 5. Ibid. Ibid. Report of War Dept., 1898, Vol. I, part 2, p. 69. Taylor, Exhibit 739. The following two telegrams were sent by General Pio del Pilar to Aguinaldo at 9.30 P.M.:
Well then, things cannot remain as they are. I cannot go on living as a hanger-on in this house. He sought painfully for words, but could find none. Pilar breathed hard. "Well in short " The words came out as if she were being strangled. "In short, Pilar I must we shall have " "I will not help you. Finish you shall say the word." "We shall have to part, Pilar." "Wretch!"
Of 100,000 inhabitants who had crowded Saragossa, 54,000 had perished. There were heaps of dead bodies round the old church, Our Lady del Pilar, object of the passionate devotion of the whole population. In their real heart, and at the first moment of victory, the French soldiers felt for the defenders of Saragossa an admiration mixed with anger and alarm.
At Wilhelm's ring the door was opened by Anne, who made him a careless courtesy, but greeted her mistress respectfully. Wilhelm was going to let Pilar precede him, but she said: "No, no; you go first. It is a better omen."
As they drove along Pilar leaned silently in her corner, only heaving a deep sigh from time to time; and Wilhelm, too, found nothing to say, oppressed as he was by the consciousness of being in an untenable situation, the eventual end of which he could not foresee.
La Clavel had carried a knife in that manner, many women, he had no doubt, did; but in Pilar its stealthy subdued gleam affected him unpleasantly. It presented a sharp mocking contrast to all that, in connection with her, had been running happily through his mind.
"They had no time to take us with them when you broke in," was the boy's answer. "Aguinaldo was on his way to some village where his family is in hiding. The scouts told him of your presence; then he determined not to wait for Pilar, but to surprise you. We never rested day or night. My poor brother how he suffered!" "Yes, yes, but why are they carrying you on a march like this?"
And how did he stand in the eyes of the servants and the visitors whose acquaintance Pilar had forced upon him? If at least she would give up her outside circle of friends!
He did not renew his attempt at revolt, made no resistance against the fact that Pilar took entire possession of his existence, and clung to him like his shadow; he only grew paler, and quieter, and more despondent than before. But he pondered day and night upon some way of unraveling the knot, and was in despair at finding none. Should he cut it? He could not.
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