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Snakes abounded, although we never saw them; but Felipa went up to their very doors, as it were, and rang the bell defiantly.
When she awoke it was long after dark, and I had relieved Edward in his watch. "You will have to give it up," he said as our lily came forth at last with sleep-flushed cheeks and starry eyes shielded from the light. "The spell is broken: we have all been taking care of Felipa, and she likes one as well as the other."
Nevertheless Dona Felipa overcame her horror of the rose garden at infelicitous hours, so far as to permit herself to be conducted by the cousins into it, and to be installed like a rose queen on the stone bench, while Dick and Cecily threw themselves in submissive and imploring attitudes at her little feet. The young girl looked mischievously from one to the other.
She had brought me South because my cough was troublesome, and here because Edward Bowne recommended the place. He and three fellow-sportsmen were down at the Madre Lagoon, farther south; I thought it probable we should see him, without his three fellow-sportsmen, before very long. "Who were the three women you have seen, Felipa?" said Christine.
His contemporaries describe him as tall and muscular; he was moderate and simple in diet and apparel, eloquent, engaging, and affable. At Lisbon he married a lady of rank, Doña Felipa. He supported his family by making maps and charts.
As for Felipa, the child lived in rapture during those days in spite of her suffering. She scarcely slept at all she was too happy: I heard her voice rippling on through the night, and Christine's low replies. She adored her beautiful nurse. The fourth day came: Edward Bowne walked into the cell.
I used to wonder how his poor ribs stood it: Felipa used him as a safety-valve for her impetuous feelings. She kissed me good-night and then asked for "the other lady." "Go to bed, child," I said: "I will give her your good-night." "But I want to kiss her too," said Felipa.
It was probably not long after this that he married Donna Felipa Munnis Perestrelo, who was residing at the convent of All Saints, in Lisbon, where he was a regular attendant at the services of the church. She was a daughter of that captain of Prince Henry's who has been already mentioned as the first governor of Porto Santo.
After remaining some time at Lisbon, where he behaved himself honourably, being a man of comely appearance, it happened that Donna Felipa Moniz, a lady of good family, then a boarder in the nunnery of All-Saints whether my father used to go to mass, fell in love with him and married him.
We never saw Felipa without Drollo. "They look a good deal alike," observed Christine "the same coloring." "For shame!" I said. But it was true. The child's bronzed yellow skin and soft eyes were not unlike the dog's, but her head was crowned with a mass of short black curls, while Drollo had only his two great flapping ears and his low smooth head.
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