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Then as the vivacious music began he walked over to Chonita and clapped his hands in front of her as authoritatively as he had bidden the musicians. What he did was of frequent occurrence in the Californian ball-room, but she looked haughtily rebellious. He continued to strike his hands together, and looked down upon her with an amused smile which brought the angry color to her face.
"Do not weep on the silk and spoil what thou hast," called down Chonita from the top step. "Thou shalt have all thou canst wear for a year." She reached the deck and stood panting and imperious before her father. "All! All! I must have all!" she cried. "Never have they been so fine, so rich." "Holy Mary!" shrieked Don Guillermo.
There is not gold enough in the Californias to feed the extravagance of the Señorita Doña Chonita Iturbi y Moncada." She managed to bend her body in spite of her burden, her eyes flashing saucily above the mass of tulle which covered the rest of her face.
Let the mind sit on high and argue the soul's mate out of doors, it will rebound, when all is said and done, like a rubber ball when the pressure of the finger is removed. As for Chonita she is the lost part of me." He left that day, and without seeing Chonita again.
Chonita, whose pride never failed her, had drawn herself up and looked coldly indifferent. "Señor," murmured Valencia, "thou wilt tarry with us long, no? We have much to show thee in Santa Barbara, and on our ranchos." "I fear that I can stay but a week, señorita. I must return to Los Angeles." "Would nothing tempt thee to stay, Don Diego?"
I felt the chill of Chonita as she lifted herself to the rigidity of a statue and swept slowly down the path. "Diego, you are a fool!" I exclaimed, when she was out of hearing. "You need not tell me that," he said, savagely. "But what in heaven's name Well, never mind. For God's sake straighten it out with her. Tell her explain to her what men are.
They climbed the steep road between the levels, slowly, the women chattering and asking questions, the men explaining and advising. Estenega and Chonita having much to say, said nothing. A cold volume of air, the muffled roar of a mountain torrent, rushed out of the forest, startling with the suddenness of its impact. Once a panther uttered its human cry. They entered the forest.
Doña Trinidad smiled upward with the self-approval of the modest barn-yard lady who has raised a magnificent bantam. Don Guillermo applauded loudly. Only Chonita turned away, the truth smiting her for the first time. "Words! words!" she thought, bitterly. "He would have said all that in two sentences. Is it true ay, triste de mi! what he said of my brother?
As Chonita had stood on the corridor and watched the approach of the Governor's cavalcade her heart had beaten violently, and she had angrily acknowledged that her nervousness was due to the fact that she was about to meet Diego Estenega again. When she discovered that he was not of the party, she turned to me with pique, resentment, and disappointment in her face.
She arrived the morning before the christening, and no one thought to tell her that Estenega was to be godfather. The house was full of girls, relatives of the young mother, gathered for the ceremony and subsequent week of festivities. Benicia, my little one, was at the rancho with Ysabel Herrera, and I was staying with the Alvarados. So many were the guests that Chonita and I slept together.
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