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She is not maternal, at all events; I never saw a baby held so awkwardly. What a poise of head! She looks better fitted for tragedy than for this little comedy of life in the Californias. A sovereignty would suit her, were it not for her eyes. They are not quite so calm and just and inexorable as the rest of her face. She would not even make a good household tyrant, like Doña Jacoba Duncan.
The Provinces of New Mexico and the Californias are contiguous to the territories of the United States, and if brought under the government of our laws their resources mineral, agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial would soon be developed.
"A thief. Ha! muy bueno but it is not I, you understand I, Caesar Briones, who am the thief! No! It is that swaggering espadachin that fanfarron of a Colonel Pendleton that pattern of an official, Mr. Hathaway that most beautiful heiress of the Californias, Miss ARGUELLO that are thieves! Yes of a NAME Miss Arguello of a NAME! The name of Arguello!" Paul rose to his feet. "Ah, so!
In proposing to acquire New Mexico and the Californias, it was known that but an inconsiderable portion of the Mexican people would be transferred with them, the country embraced within these Provinces being chiefly an uninhabited region. These were the leading considerations which induced me to authorize the terms of peace which were proposed to Mexico.
Rosa adored her young mistress and exulted even when Concha's voice rose in wrath; for was not she noticed by the loveliest senorita in all the Californias, while others, envious and spiteful to a poor girl no worse than themselves, were ignored?
I tell him he should be the first to recognize the genius and the ambitions of a Bonaparte. The mere thought horrifies him. But in me that same strong plebeian blood makes another cry, and if my father had but enough men at his back, and the will to make himself King of the Californias Madre de Dios! how I should help him!"
I have ridden like the wind, and coliared a bull with the best vaquero in the Californias, but I am afraid my mind has had fifteen years of siesta. Now well, I shall be governor of the Californias one day, and then I shall send all the Indians back to the mountains."
They call them Californias now, but they are evidently the opulent kin of those sturdy, dark-eyed Russian violets of my mother's garden, and as they mean more than any other flower to me, Evan always brings them to me when I come to town.
Neither saw a man walking rapidly up the trail. Suddenly the man gave a bound and ran toward them. It was Reinaldo. "Ah, I have found thee," he cried. "Listen, Don Diego Estenega, lord of the North, American, and would-be dictator of the Californias.
"Thou dost not ask of the races, O thou indifferent one! What is the trouble, my Ysabel? Will no one bring the pearls? The loveliest girl in all the Californias has said, 'I will wed no man who does not bring me a lapful of pearls, and no one has filled the front of that pretty flowered gown. But have reason, niña.
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