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Updated: June 20, 2025
The golden skeleton within the sleeping body of California had not yet been laid bare. But ranchos were lost and won; thousands of cattle would pass to other hands at the next rodeo; many a superbly caparisoned steed would rear and plunge between the spurs of a new master. And caballeros were not the only living pictures of that memorable day of a time for ever gone.
"Surely, my mother; I love no one in the world but you." Doña Eustaquia leaned back and tapped the girl's fair cheek with her finger. "Not even Don Fernando Altimira?" "No, my mother." "Nor Flujencio Hernandez? Nor Juan Perez? Nor any of the caballeros who serenade beneath thy window?" "I love their music, but it comes as sweetly from one throat as from another."
"You are so used to compliments I know how the caballeros go on you won't mind my saying it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw and I have been about the world a bit." "Si?" "I wish I could dance, if only to dance with you." "You no dance?" Her tone expressed polite scorn, although her voice was scarcely audible. "Would would you talk out a dance with me?" "Oh no."
As he coolly studied the good looks of the young caballeros and the plain intellectual face and slight little figure of the Bostonian, noted the utter indifference with which they were treated by the Favorita of Presidio and Mission, he felt a sudden rush of arrogance, a youthful tingling of nerves, the same prophetic sense of imminent happiness and power that his first contact with the light electrical air and the beauty of the country had induced.
Don José and Doña Ignacia her mother permitted her to enter upon the religious life, for they understood; and Luis and Santiago made no protest either, for they understood also and had loved Rezánov. But the rest of her family, the relations, the friends, the young men the caballeros!
As one of his listeners might have spoken of tea too strong at a Madison Square "afternoon," so he depicted the ravages of "redeye" in a border town when the caballeros of the lariat and "forty-five" reduced ennui to a minimum. And then, with a sweep of his white, unringed hands, he dismissed Melpomene, and forthwith Diana and Amaryllis footed it before the mind's eyes of the clubmen.
"Canned baked beans," chuckled Harry, after glancing at the label. "Hurry and get the stuff open." Nicolas opened two tins of the beans, then produced a package of soda biscuits. "This will be enough for one meal, caballeros?" he asked. "Oh, plenty," nodded Tom. "And then I have some of our Mexican beans, dried," Nicolas continued. "They will do when we are not so near a food supply.
From the mouth of the canyon trotted a band of saddle horses, kicking up a dust cloud that filmed the picture made by the gay caballeros who galloped behind. A gallant company were they; and when they met and mingled with those who came down from the north, it was as though a small army was giving itself a holiday in that vivid valley, with the Tres Pinos gurgling at the fun.
He would be governor of the Californias, and make himself a good and great man, wiser than the idle caballeros who patronised him; he would teach them the folly of their useless lives. "Look," said Anastacio, abruptly. "We are here. It is a pueblo of my fathers, and will serve us now."
Girls in gay muslins and silk rebosos were sitting beneath the arches of the corridor or flitting under the trees where the yellow apricots hung among the green leaves. Languid and sparkling faces coquetted with caballeros in bright calico jackets and knee-breeches laced with silken cord, their slender waists girt with long sashes hanging gracefully over the left hip.
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