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Maybe not maybe he is the choice of Don Ambrosio; who, himself of plebeian origin, is ambitious that his blood should be mingled with that of the military hidalgo. The soldier has no money beyond his pay; and that is mortgaged for months in advance; but he is a true Gachupino, of "blue blood," a genuine "hijo de algo." Not a singular ambition of the old miser, nor uncommon among parvenus.
But sharper than her nails were the teeth of the great wolf-dog that sprang almost simultaneously from his lair, and, seizing the soldier by the limbs, caused him to bellow out at the top of his voice "Without there! Sergeant Gomez! Ho! treason! to the rescue! to the rescue!" "Ay! dog of a Gachupino!" screamed the old woman, "dog of Spanish blood! you may call your cowardly myrmidons!
Even an old woman and a dog are enough. Oh, that my brave Carlos had been here! He would have taught that proud Gachupino we were not so helpless! Ha! that would Carlos!" "Do not think of it any more, dear mother; I don't think they will return. You have frightened them away, you and our brave Cibolo. How well he behaved!
Ha! ha! ha! I haven't been twenty years in the saddle to be bantered by a Gachupino." "Sir!" thundered Vizcarra and Roblado in a breath, at the same time grasping the hilts of their swords, and frowning in a fierce threatening manner. "Oh! gentlemen, don't be offended," said Carlos, half sneeringly. "It only slipped from my tongue. I meant no insult, I assure you."
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