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He had fallen into talk more intimate than he wished; and while the guest was uttering something polite about the nobility of missionary work, he placed him in an easy-chair and sought aguardiente for his immediate refreshment. Since the year's beginning there had been no guest for him to bring into his rooms, or to sit beside him in the high seats at table, set apart for the gente fina.
"What the deuce are you doing?" The cigars nearly fell from the mouth of each of the smokers as Gus appeared on the scene, but when the smokers made out Todd's face through the haze, Mehtah said, with much relief "Oh, talking." "That isn't quite a true bill," said Gus. "Your Flora Fina de Cabbagios keep the fish from biting." "Have one," said Burnt Lamb, hospitably offering Todd a cigar.
Each of these servants wore one single white garment, and offered the many dishes to the gente fina and refilled their glasses. At the lower end of the table a general attendant wafted upon mesclados the half-breeds.
That girl could commit murder; and I verily believe that she did push Fina into the water, as the child says, and that if Josephine had not got there in time she would have let her drown. And if I think all this, how can I like her?" "No, if you think all this, as you say, you cannot like her," replied Edgar coldly.
"And mind that Leam comes too," said Josephine, sharing her favorite brother's action by design. "And me," cried Fina. Whereat they all laughed, which made Fina cry, to be consoled only by some sweetmeats which Josephine found in her work-basket. It was agreed, then, that the next day Leam and her father should dine at the Hill.
"This was mamma's my own mamma's," she said. "Leam will never tell me about mamma: you tell me, Major Harrowby," coaxingly. "I cannot: I did not know her," said Edgar in an altered voice, while Leam looked as if her judgment had come, but bore it as she had borne all the rest, resolutely. "I want to hear about mamma, and who killed her," pouted Fina.
Alfred de Vigny they spoke of, and Victor Hugo, whom the Padre disliked. Long after the dulce, or sweet dish, when it was the custom for the vaqueros and the rest of the retainers to rise and leave the gente fina to themselves, the host sat on in the empty hail, fondly talking to his guest of his bygone Paris and fondly learning of the later Paris that the guest had seen.
To-night I have bought one young ladee verree pretty so fina, gorda, blandita! To-morrow the chili will be ready. Ahora si! One thousand dollars I pay for thees young ladee. From an Americano I have bought a verree tip-top man el Capitan Peek que es, Señor?" For Tansey had sprung to his feet, upsetting the chair. The words of Katie reverberated in his ears: "They're going to eat me, Sam."
"I am happy with you, Missy Joseph," pouted Fina; "and you," to Edgar, whom she again lifted up her face to kiss, kisses and sweeties being her twin circumstances of Paradise. "And with sister Leam: say 'With Leam, else I will not kiss you," said Edgar, holding her off. She struggled, half laughing, half minded to cry. "I want to kiss you," she cried.
After that scene in the pony-carriage Leam began to take it to heart that little Fina did not love her. Hitherto, solicitous only to do her duty unrelated to sentiment, she had not cared to win the child's rootless and unmeaning affection: now she longed to hear her say to Major Harrowby, "I love Leam."
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