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Updated: May 14, 2025
"If you would like to see the home of Luis Argüello, I will show it to you. It is at the Presidio." "A hopeless mass of neglected ruins, I suppose. But still I should like to see the old walls, if you can find them." "Shall we take the Camino Real on foot, just as the old padres used to?" "Not if I have my way.
In the record of an affray at a gambling-house, one of the parties had sought refuge in the rooms of "Kate Howard," who was represented before the magistrate by HER PROTECTOR, JUAN DE ARGUELLO. The date given was contemporary with the beginning of the Trust, but that proved nothing.
While the Gallegan and la Argüello were settling matters in this way, our good friend, Lope Asturiano, was on his way to the river, musing upon his beloved tunny fisheries and on his sudden change of condition.
Simple and artless in her manners, yet possessing the early maturity of her race, she set her guests at ease and entertained them with stories of life on the great ranchos, while her mother was busy with household duties. "It was ten days before Don José Argüello returned from Monterey and in the meantime no business could be transacted.
"You never have been in Monterey before, señorita, I understand," said Estenega to Chonita. No situation could embarrass him. "No; once they thought to send me to the convent here, to Doña Concepcion Arguéllo, but it was so far, and my mother does not like to travel.
The Massachusetts Proceedings for 1869-1870 also give, from the Archives of California, the letter of Governor Don Pedro Fages of Santa Barbara to Don Josef Arguello of San Francisco, warning the latter against the American navigators.
Governor Arrillaga, Commandante Arguello, and Chamberlain Rezanov sat in the familiar sala at the Presidio content in body after a culinary achievement worthy of Padre Landaeta, but perturbed and alert of mind.
The Spaniards were properly impressed as the priest translated with the glibness of the original; but Arguello, who announced himself as Commandante ad interim of the Presidio of San Francisco during the absence of his father at Monterey, nodded sagely several times, and then held a short conference in Spanish with the interpreter.
Then, dropping into the chair beside him, she said, in her old voice, from which the burden of ten long years seemed to have been lifted, "Harry, what's that you're playing on me?" "I don't understand you," said Pendleton amazedly. "Do you mean to say you don't know it, and didn't tell her yourself?" she said curtly. "What? Tell her what?" he repeated impatiently. "That Arguello WAS her father!"
With the exception of Alvarado, Castro, and Estenega, the members of the Junta were men of middle age, and represented the talent of California, Jimeno, Gonzales, Arguëllo, Requena, Del Valle. Their dark, bearded faces, upturned to the stars, made a striking set of profiles, but the effect was marred by the silk handkerchiefs they had tied about their heads.
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