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Updated: June 3, 2025
The echo of that futile shot followed Charles Abbott to the Escobars', where, because of the often repeated names of its principals, he recognized that the affair was being minutely discussed.
This, giving Charles a fresh view of his usefulness, slightly cooled his ardor; he was willing to accept it, in his exalted state he would make any sacrifice for the ideal that had possessed him; but there was an acceptance of brutal unsentimental fact in the Latin fibre of the Escobars foreign to his own more romantic conceptions.
Charles prepared slowly for dinner at the Dominica; and, when he was ready to go out, he was the pattern of a fashionable and idle young tourist. But what filled his mind was the speculation whether or not the Escobars would remember to prevent the return of Juan Roman with the priest from Matanzas.
Must all my life go on in this funeral march?" The elder Escobars regarded her in a voiceless amazement; but Andrés said severely: "You are too young to understand the tragedy of Cuba or Vincente's heroic spirit. I am ashamed of you before Charles Abbott." Narcisa rose and walked swiftly out upon the balcony.
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