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Updated: May 1, 2025

Then gently touching Mauro's arm, the Duke queried: "And so you admire the Duchess, young man?" With a start Mauro answered, after a dazed stare at the Duke: "A thousand pardons, Excellency! But yes, sir; who in all the world could fail to admire her?" "Yes, yes," replied the Duke; "God never made but one other quite her equal, and her He made in her own very image Sofia; que Dios la aguarda!"

Edgar Beecher Bronson - The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier