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"Senor Capitan," continued he, "you are without a sword. Will you favour me by accepting this?" Don Cosme held out to me a rapier of Toledo steel, with a golden scabbard richly chased, and bearing on its hilt the eagle and nopal of Mexico. "It is a family relic, and once belonged to the brave Guadalupe Victoria." "Ha! indeed!" I exclaimed, taking the sword; "I shall value it much.
"Mama," said Don Cosme, "the gentlemen had not quite finished their cigars." "Oh! they can smoke here," replied the senora. "Will the ladies not object to that?" I inquired. "No no no!" ejaculated they simultaneously. "Perhaps you will join us? we have heard that such is the custom of your country." "It was the custom," said Don Cosme.
Beginning with August 10th and ending the 14th inst., this army has gallantly fought its way through the fields and forts of Contreras, San Antonio, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec, and the gates of San Cosme and Tacubaya, into the capital of Mexico.
Not wishing to intrude upon this sacred sorrow, we made a motion to retire. "No, Senores," said Don Cosme, interrupting us. "Be seated; let us talk calmly let us know the worst." We then proceeded to inform Don Cosme of the landing of the American troops and the manner in which our lines were drawn around the city, and pointed out to him the impossibility of anyone passing either in or out.
Maximilian, in order to facilitate a union which he deemed to be in the interest of his government, gave the young girl as a dowry the palace of San Cosme,* valued at one hundred thousand dollars; and thus was May united, to December. Two children were born to the marshal, one of them in Mexico, and never was father prouder of his young wife and of her offspring than was the marshal. *
Here begins the San Cosme aqueduct, a huge, arched structure of heavy masonry, which adds picturesqueness to the scenery. Maximilian, upon taking up his abode here, caused a number of beautiful avenues to be constructed in various directions, suitable for drives, in addition to the grand paseo leading to the city, which also owes its construction to his taste and liberality.
Behind the Molino del Rey rose the hill of Chapultepec, crowned by the great castle which had been the palace of Montezuma and of the Spanish viceroys, now the military college of the Republic and the strongest of her fortresses. Three miles from the city walls, the stronghold completely barred the line of advance on the San Cosme Gate.
"Si, Senor," replied Don Cosme, holding the steak on his fork. "A guana steak! Do you think, lads, he means the ugly things we saw at Lobos." "To be sure why not?" "Then, by Jove, I'm through! I can't go lizards. Thank you, my dear Don Cosme; I believe I have dined." "Try this; it is very tender, I assure you," insisted Don Cosme. "Come, try it, Major, and report," cried Clayey.
And yet, upon closer observation, there seemed to be no door leading from this hall, which, as Don Cosme informed his guests, was the ante-sala. Our host approached one of the large mirrors, and slightly touched a spring.
Perhaps Cosme would be back before night. He and the parson would have waited for the storm to be over before they made their start. She believed in her own excuses for five uneasy days, and then she believed in the worst of all her fears. She had a hundred to choose from Cosme's desertion, Cosme's death.... One day she spent walking to and fro with her nails driven into her palms.
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