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Updated: June 25, 2025
If I see her there I shall know she is obedient, and perhaps, yes, perhaps, well, we will see about the rest." "Oh, Padre," Te filo exclaimed, "you are my padre, indeed;" and he put the priest's hand to his forehead. "I know she will come, and I know she wishes to please you. And Padre," he said, "I have made a picture of the angels of La Navidad. "I thought I thought "
There it lay among the chias, and she picked it up and carried it to her room. Light was dawning in the east, and she did not lie down again, but stood in her door, making up her mind to the humiliation she was to undergo for the sake of Te filo and their love. She did not waver now; indeed, in her young, strong passion she gloried in the sacrifice she would make for love's sake.
"Yes, it is certainly good enough, Te filo," said the Father. "We will have gold round the heads and golden stars on the robes, and San Juan's church shall be the finest in California. Though how it comes that the girl Magdalena can have been your model passes my understanding. Indeed, I think it is the good San Lucas, or San Juan himself, who has helped you.
The spirits of both had been under strain, and one thing only had been in their thoughts for hours before, so that they were in great degree oblivious to the general terror. As Te filo put his arms about her, a bright smile came on her white face, and she said, pointing to the candle, "It was hard, but I prayed to San Lucas, and he told me to do it, and now we can be married."
"Mais, mon filo," said Bang, "mais que meanez vous by baaing comme un sheep, eh? Que vizzy vous, eh?"
And then she thought of what Te filo had told her, how he had told the Father about painting the angels for the church because he had seen her standing with upraised hands, like an angel, that day. Poor Te filo! how he loved her! and how she loved him, too! It was hard, very hard, that there was so much trouble. How happy they might be!
When Te filo told Magdalena, at their next meeting, what the Father had said, the girl was enraged. "So he thinks I am not good enough for you!" she cried: "And I have done everything to please him. But he is only a priest, and has no heart. Ah! those Spaniards, I hate them!" And then, with a woman's illogical turn "Well, he shall see that I am Spanish too.
She did not see him, for her eyes were on the ground: but she knew his place, for he had often told her; and as she came near to where he was kneeling she turned a little toward him, and murmured, so that only he should understand, "It is for thee, Te filo." As she came close to the altar step, the Father's eyes rested on her with a glance that seemed to say, "It is well, my daughter."
You are excelent'simo, as San Lucas said of San Te filo in the superscription to his holy evangel; so I shall call you Te filo, excelent'simo Te filo, instead of Lucas; why not?" And Te filo the boy became from that day, though Lucas he remained in the record of baptisms kept in the tall sheepskin volume in the Father's closet.
At the first cry of the frightened people Te filo had risen to his feet. He looked to where Magdalena had been kneeling, and saw her standing, still holding her penitent's candle alight in her hand.
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