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Updated: June 22, 2025
He drew himself up under the blow with such simple and manly dignity that her eyes dropped for the moment. "There is another, then?" he said, sadly. "There is no one I care for better than you. No! Do not be foolish. Let me go. I tell you that because you can be nothing to me you understand, to ME. To my sister Amita, yes." The young soldier raised his head coldly.
She is but leading this Frenchman a dance, as she has led the others, and the Dona Amita and her Raymond are but wax in her hands. Besides, I have spoken with the little 'Ruja to-day, and spoke my mind, Pepita, and she says there is nothing." "And whilst thou wert speaking to her, my poor Pereo, the devil of an American Doctor was speaking to her mother, thy mistress our mistress, Pereo!
"And who tells you these pretty stories?" asked Maruja, with her face still turned towards Carroll. "The foreman, Harrison, who, with an extensive practical experience of tramps, was struck with this exception to the general rule." "Poor man; one ought to do something for him," said Amita, compassionately. "What!" said Raymond, with affected terror, "and spoil this perfect story? Never!
"Just you come, Miss, and bring your father and your brothers, and stay a week and you'll see," responded Aladdin, gallantly. "Hold on! What's your father's first name? I'll send a team over there for you to-morrow." "And is it true that you frightened the handsome Captain Carroll away from Amita?" said Dolores Briones, over the edge of her fan to Raymond.
"Do you still think it is Amita that I" he stopped and added passionately, "Do you remember what I told you? have you forgotten last night?" "Last night was last night!" said Maruja, slightly lifting her shoulders. "One makes love at night one marries in daylight.
He did not attend the funeral, nor did Mrs. Saltonstall; but the family was represented by Maruja and Amita, accompanied by one or two dark-faced cousins, Captain Carroll, and Raymond.
Perhaps his face showed something of this, for Maruja added, with mock demureness, "It's always dreadful to be the eldest sister; but think what it is to be in the direct line of a curse! Now, there's Amita SHE'S free to do as she likes, with no family responsibility; while poor me!" She dropped her eyes, but not until they had again sought and half-reproved the brightening eyes of Carroll.
Maruja's quick ears had taken in every word of these asides, and for an instant she hated her sister for her aimless declination of Raymond's proposal. But becoming conscious under her eyelids that the stranger was moving away with the dispersing crowd, she rejoined Amita with her usual manner.
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