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He was most cordial, but he thought with his Spaniard's pride that I ought I use my words, not his in some way to repair my insufficiency in station and the rest; and he pointed out this way of the uniform. I could not resist his argument; I did not speak that night. I took out my papers and became a Spaniard; with Esteban's help I secured a commission. That was two years ago.
"You're going to tell me that you have nothing, can offer me nothing. You're going to do the generous, noble thing. Well! I hate generous people. I'm selfish, utterly selfish and spoiled, and I don't propose to be robbed of anything I want, least of all my happiness. You do love me, don't you?" Esteban's cry was eloquent; he clasped his arms about her and she held him fiercely to her breast.
The wire, cut into short pieces, served as nails and staples with which to draw together the gaping seams. Old rags from the house and parts of the men's clothing supplied calking, upon which the tar was smeared. While one man shaped mast and oars, another cut Esteban's shelter tent into a sail, and fitted it.
In her girlish faith, she had no fear for his safety; he would conquer, he would succeed; he would come back to them victorious! Looking up from her happy abstraction, at the side of Mrs. Markham, who had calmly gone to sleep in an arm-chair, she saw Father Esteban's eyes fixed upon her. With a warning gesture of the hand towards Mrs.
It was these very troops, he announced, who had driven the fisherman from his home; he was sure there were no boats anywhere within reach. O'Reilly was in a quandary. He gravely doubted Esteban's ability to stand the rough return journey, and when he spoke to Norine of turning back she was panic-stricken at the suggestion. "No, no!" she cried, anxiously. "We MUST get him away.
"Look at me. Don't turn your face aside, but hear me; for I believe your story." Without raising his eyes, the young man lifted Father Esteban's hand from his shoulder, pressed it lightly, and put it quietly aside. "I thank you," he said, "for keeping at least that unstained memory of me. But it matters little now. Good-by!" He had his hand upon the door, but the priest again withheld him.
He uttered a shrill scream of terror, and, seizing the revolver which was always close at his hand, he fired blindly. Then his foes were upon him. What happened thereafter took but an instant. He dodged a blow from Esteban's clubbed rifle only to behold the flash of a machete.
Norine crossed quickly to the hammock and laid her cool hand upon the sick man's forehead. "You mustn't be discouraged," she told him, earnestly. "Remember this is a trying climate and we have nothing to do with. Even the food is wretched." Esteban's smile became wistful. "That isn't why my fever lasts. If there were any life, any health left in me you would rekindle it.
"Precisely! I am my own manager. If your crops do not pay, then Pancho Cueto is cheating you. He is capable of it. Get rid of him. But I didn't come here to talk about Esteban's hidden treasure, nor his plantations, nor Pancho Cueto. I came here to talk about your step-daughter, Rosa." "So?" Dona Isabel looked up quickly. "She interests me. She is more beautiful than the stars."
"You a beautiful woman, my superior in everything, the mistress of these lands where I am only steward made ridiculous, not by my presumption, but by my confession? Was the saint you just now admired in Father Esteban's chapel ridiculous because of the peon clowns who were kneeling before it?" "Hush! This is wicked! Stop!"
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