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"Yeah, I saw your purse, tu bolsa upstairs arriba la escalera; but run to the convenience store or the grocery store for the asprin whatever is quickest. Rapidamente!" "No, dama. Hoy no tengo trabajar hasta cinco." "For Pete's sake usted es terrible perezosa. You are floja-lazy floja, floja-lazy." "I'm not none floja, please Miss. I'm your good illegal trabajadora. Don't throw me in the streets."
DOÑA MATILDE. Pues mira, mayor fué, si cabe, mi congoja al subir esta eterna escalera a tientas, al tardar diez minutos en acertar con el agujero de la llave, al encontrarme después sola y sin luz en este aposento desconocido y frío, sin atreverme a dar un paso por no tropezar con algún mueble, hasta que volviste con el candelero que te prestó la vecina.
So little noise had his moccasins made upon the stones, that, when he arrived upon the roof, its occupant although standing but six feet from the head of the escalera was not aware of his presence!
Quick proceed all those who know let her be brought forth! quick I am on fire one moment more " "O Heaven! you will murder me a moment Stay! Ha!" The last exclamation was in a different tone from the rest. It was a shout of exultation of triumph! The face of the Comandante was turned towards the escalera by which Carlos had ascended, while that of the latter looked in the opposite direction.
During the short conversation between the Comandante and Roblado he had not been idle, though apparently so. He had made a full reconnaissance of the walls. He saw that out of the saguan, or gateway, an escalera of stone steps led up to the azotea.
When her head was just disappearing below the top of the escalera, her face was towards her mistress, whose back was now turned to her. A scornful pouting of the lips, accompanied by a demoniac smile, was visible upon it. It was evident from that look that she knew something more of the lost paper than was admitted in her late declaration.
This communication was intended for the soldiers, when any duty required them to mount to the roof; but Carlos knew that there was another escalera, by which the officers ascended: and although he had never been inside the Presidio, he rightly conjectured that this was at the adjacent end of the building.
Ven aca!" "Si, Senorita." "Anda! Anda!" A girl, in short bright-coloured nagua, and white chemisette without sleeves, came out into the patio, and climbed up the escalera that led to the roof. She was a mestiza, or half-blood, of Indian and Spanish mixture, as her brownish-white skin testified.
Carlos saw at a glance he could not overtake him before he should reach the escalera, and make his descent; and to follow him below would now be useless, for the shot had given the alarm. There was a moment of despair, a short moment; for in the next a bright thought rushed into the mind of the cibolero he remembered his rifle. There might be still time to overtake the Comandante with that.
She returned once more, and took up the bandolon. But her fingers had hardly touched the strings before she laid the instrument down again, and rose from the bench, as if some sudden resolution had taken possession of her. "I never thought of that I may have dropped it in the garden!" she muttered to herself, as she glided toward a small escalera that led down into the patio.
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