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Updated: May 25, 2025
This "Troubadour" was a favourite with Rosita; and when she took up her bandolon, and accompanied herself with its guitar-like notes, the listener would be delighted. She was now singing to beguile the hours and lighten her task; and although not accompanied by any music, her silvery voice sounded sweet and clear. The mother had laid aside her pipe of punche, and was busy as Rosita herself.
The lady once more returned to the azotea once more took up the bandolon; but after a few touches of the strings, laid it down, and again rose to her feet. Again she soliloquised. "Carrambo! it is very strange! neither in my chamber the sala, the cuarto, the azotea, the garden! where can it be? O Dios! if it should fall into the hands of papa!
Here a petate, or a palm hat there a broken olla; a stringless bandolon, the fragments of a guitar crushed under the angry heel, or some flimsy articles of female dress cuffed into the dust; leaves of torn books misas, or lives of the Santisima Maria the labours of some zealous padre; old paintings of the saints, Guadalupe, Remedios, and Dolores of the Nino of Guatepec rudely torn from the walls and perforated by the sacrilegious bayonet, flung into the road, kicked from foot to foot the dishonoured penates of a conquered people.
Besides these grand people there were employes of the mines of less note, clerks of the comerciantes, young farmers of the valley, gambucinos, vaqueros, ciboleros, and even "leperos" of the town, shrouded in their cheap serapes. A motley throng was the fandango. The music consisted of a bandolon, a harp, and fiddle, and the dances were the waltz, the bolero, and the coona.
They are of silk and silk-velvet, richly brocaded; while on a second table, slab like the first, he can distinguish bijouterie, with other trifles usually belonging to a lady's toilet. These lie in front of a small mirror set in a frame which appears to be silver; while above is suspended a guitar, of the kind known as bandolon.
Such a prospect should have rendered her countenance radiant with joy. And so was it, at intervals, when this thought came into her mind; but there was another some other thought that brought those clouds upon her brow, and imparted that air of uneasy apprehension. What was that thought? In her hand she held a bandolon. She flung herself upon a bench, and began to play some old Spanish air.
She returned once more, and took up the bandolon. But her fingers had hardly touched the strings before she laid the instrument down again, and rose from the bench, as if some sudden resolution had taken possession of her. "I never thought of that I may have dropped it in the garden!" she muttered to herself, as she glided toward a small escalera that led down into the patio.
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