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Updated: June 29, 2025
Benicia and a group of girls were standing by Doña Eustaquia. They opened their large black fans as if to wave back the pink that had sprung to their cheeks. Only Benicia held her head saucily high, and her large brown eyes were full of defiant sparkles. "Why art thou so excited, Blandina?" she asked of a girl who had grasped her arm.
A tall officer in the uniform of the United States navy raised his cap from iron-gray hair and looked at her with blue eyes as piercing as her own. "You will pardon me, madam," he said, "if I insist upon attending you to your door. It is not safe for a woman to walk alone in the streets of Monterey at night." Doña Eustaquia bent her head somewhat haughtily.
Doña Eustaquia laughed. "Thou silly child, to dress thyself like a bride. What nonsense is this?" "I will be a bride in an hour, my mother." "Go! Go, with thy nonsense! I have spoiled thee! What other girl in Monterey would dare to dress herself like this at eleven in the morning? Go! And do not ruin that mantilla, for thou wilt not get another. Thou art going to Blandina's, no?
Who can say that they would not be as heroic, if opportunity offered, as they have been prudent?" Doña Eustaquia shrugged her shoulders disdainfully, but resumed her seat. "You will not say, but you know what chance they would have with Castro in a fair fight. But what chance has even a great man, when at the head of a few renegades, against the navy of a big nation? But Frémont!
The United States of America are mightier than Mexico, therefore they sweep down upon us with mouths wide open. Holy God! That I could choke but one with my own strong fingers. Oh!" Doña Eustaquia paused abruptly and smote her hands together, "O that I were a man! That the women of California were men!"
Had he been unkind to thee, I should have killed him with my own hands; but as he has his lips to thy little slipper, I forgive him for being an American." "And you no longer wish for a necklace of American ears! Oh, mamma!" Doña Eustaquia frowned, then sighed.
But had he been correctly informed, he undoubtedly would have conceived the same admiration and respect for your brave General that is felt by every other man among us." Doña Eustaquia looked somewhat mollified, but shook her head sternly. "Much better he took the trouble to hear true. He insult all Californians by those shemful words. All the enemies of our dear General be glad.
"No, my Chonita; I wish to meet him now. My curiosity devours me." "Very well; come with me and thou shalt know him. Wilt thou come too, Eustaquia? There are only men on the corridor." We found Diego and Don Guillermo talking politics in a corner, both deeply interested. Estenega rose at once.
Dona Eustaquia sat easily against the straight back of her chair, looking very handsome and placid as Brotherton read and expounded "As You Like It" to her.
"Perhaps; they are men and like what they have not had too long." "Mamacita, I am thirsty." "What wilt thou have? A glass of water?" "Water has no taste." "I know!" Doña Eustaquia left the room and returned with an orange. "This will be cool and pleasant on so warm a day. It is just a little sour," she said; but the nurse raised her bony hand. "Do not give her that," she said in her harsh voice.
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