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He was not unfamiliar with the remorse of certain gallants for peccadillos with other men's wives; but this Americano's self-abasement for the sins of his own wife as he foolishly claimed her to be whom he hated and despised, struck Father Esteban as a miracle open to suspicion.
The archbishop ate sparingly he drank a little of the milk, and tasted a piece of fruit, but his conversation with his guest seemed to satisfy him far more than food could do. Full of the hope of relief for his people, he now turned to plans for the Signore Americano's protection. Throughout the mountains, the hard life had made a hard people, he said, and unfriendly to foreigners.
His solitude was not broken in upon; curiosity was too active a vice, and induced too much exertion for his indolent neighbors, and the Americano's basking seclusion, though unlike the habits of his countrymen, did not affect them.
Biff, bang, kill; ver' bad," and she clapped her gauntleted hands together sharply. "But not me; I vas only girl; no gun, no knife see. I just like know more 'bout mine Americano's mine; you show me how it vork. Sabe?" Stutter appeared puzzled, doubtful. "Mexicana?" he questioned, kicking a piece of rock with his heavy boot. "Si, señor, but I speak de English ver' good.
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