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This was Don Ricardo's youngest niece. "Ah, Reefy, Reefy," said I, "you must make haste, and be made post, and then" "What does he call her?" said Aaron. "Senora Tomassa Candalaria de los Dolores Gonzales y Vallejo," blubbered out little Reefy. "What a complicated piece of machinery she must be!" gravely rejoined Bang.

"You shall take Fernando, the sailor's part," said Senora Candalaria, the youngest sister, to Juana, "for your voice is deeper than mine, and I shall be Anna." "Agreed," said Juana, with a lovely smile, and an arch twinkle of her eye towards me, and then launched forth in full tide, accompanying her sweet and mellow voice on that too much neglected instrument, the guitar.

However, I will not dwell on it. We reached the town towards evening. The women were ready to weep, I saw; but we all turned in, and next morning at breakfast we were moved, I will admit some more, some less. Little Reefy, poor fellow, was crying like a child; indeed he was little more, being barely fifteen. "Oh! Mr Cringle, I wish I had never seen Miss Candalaria de los Dolores; indeed I do."

We had turned from the Calle Mirasol into the Calle Candalaria, and the head of the column had almost reached the Plaza Principal. The band had just crashed into "The Stars and Stripes Forever."