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"What of that?" asked Francisca, serenely, holding the rich corded silk at arm's length, and half closing her eyes as she readjusted the deep flounce of Spanish lace. "Remember, we shall ride and dance and play games together for a week with all of you, dear friends, before I go away with him. I shall know him quite well by that time. And did not my father know him when he was a little boy?
If my lady, or I should say my shepherdess, happens to be called Ana, I'll sing her praises under the name of Anarda, and if Francisca, I'll call her Francenia, and if Lucia, Lucinda, for it all comes to the same thing; and Sancho Panza, if he joins this fraternity, may glorify his wife Teresa Panza as Teresaina."
He donated the land, and only asked that the city be named Francisca, after his wife, Francisca Benicia. He gave a tract an mile wide by five miles long. It's a better site for a big city than this is, they say, because it's not so steep and is only across a narrow strait from the mainland, and has deep-water anchorage.
He thought of the empty chorister's robe in the little cell, but not now with regret. He only trembled to think of the flesh that he had once caused to inhabit it. "That's all, gentlemen," broke in the practical voice of Cranch. "Whether there are proofs enough to make Francisca the heiress of her father's wealth, the lawyers must say.
For when Don Gregorio got himself more company another time it ees all yonge ladies, and my aunt she is invite too; for she was yonge then, and she herself have tell to me this: "One night she is in the garden with the other girls, and when they want to go in the casa one have say, 'Where is Francisca Pacheco?
Something that would kind of show that she was the daughter of the city, you know." "You couldn't call her 'Santa Francisca, eh?" said Colonel Pendleton, doubtingly. "Not much," said the woman, with a seriousness that defied any ulterior insinuation. "Nor Chrysopolinia?" said the Mayor, musingly. "But that's only a FIRST name. She must have a family name," said the woman impatiently.
But since then she has declared before the alcalde that she gave it to Father Pedro, of San Carmel, and that here it stands Francisco that was! Francisca that it is!" He stepped aside to make way for a tall girl, who had approached from the cottage. Father Pedro had neither noticed the concluding words nor the movement of Cranch.
Francisca played with her fan and Kit imagined she was pondering. "A risk that leads to nothing is not worth while," she remarked. "I think it would be prudent if you left the country while you are well." "I should be sorry if I thought you wanted me to go," said Kit. "That is cheap, señor. I gave you good advice." "Oh, well," said Kit, "I really think you did.
This clew was, that the headless body, was that of Francisca Engelhardt, who had not long ago been married to a Dr. Kettner, who deserted his first wife in Dakota, and whom she had never seen until he came to Cincinnati, to marry her, the acquaintance and engagement having been made through a correspondence advertisement in a Cincinnati newspaper.
I see Señorita Sarmiento is not engaged and she dances well." "I doubt if Dona Francisca would care to dance with me again." "Ah," said Alvarez, "one should not be too modest! Francisca is a politician, but she is a woman. Perhaps you found she is not on my side?" "I imagined she was not." Alvarez shrugged. "Well, I do not fight with women, although they are sometimes dangerous.
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