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Of this agreeable type, Senor Garavel was an admirable example, having sprung from the finest Castilian stock, as a name running back through the pages of history to the earliest conquests attested.
"So I believe." "It looked like a fight between him and General Alfarez, but they've patched it up, and the General is going to withdraw. Garavel is to have Uncle Sam's congratulations and co-operation. It's a joke, isn't it, this international good feeling?" "Excuse me." Anthony saw Runnels searching the room with anxiety. He hurried toward him and inquired, breathlessly: "Have you got him?"
Ramon is only too anxious to marry her. As to this being the end of you here, well, I really don't see how it could be otherwise. No Kirk, it's for you to decide whether you wish to be shown the secret path up the mountain or to scale the cliffs unaided. There are no conditions. You merely mustn't play the fool." "And if I don't agree you will tell Mr. Garavel that I'm going to make trouble?"
I thought I was going to see you alone." "Oh, that is never allowed." "Never? How am I going to ask you to marry me?" Miss Garavel hid her blushing face behind her fan. "Indeed! You seem capable of asking that absurd question under any circumstances." "I wish you would straighten me out on some of your customs." "What, for instance?" "Why does the whole family sit around and watch me?
She would have said more, but just at that moment her husband entered. "You were saying that Alfarez suspects," said Cortlandt, addressing Garavel. "Has he said anything?" "Not to me, as yet, but he surely must know; the rumors must have reached him. He is cold and Ramon acts queerly. I feel guilty almost as if I had betrayed a friend." "Nonsense! There is no room for fine scruples in politics.
It is only a little recess in the wall, with barely room for a few kneeling figures, but at night its bright radiance illumines the darkness round about and lends the spot a certain sanctity. Contrary to the usual custom, the Garavel mansion has a narrow yard, almost smothered in tropical plants that crowd one another through the iron bars and nod at the passers-by.
He shook hands with Edith and her husband, bowed to Gertrudis, then turned to meet her father's stare. "May I have a word with you, sir?" Garavel inclined his head silently. As the others moved on he said: "This is hardly a suitable time or place, Mr. Anthony." "Oh, I'm not going to kick up a fuss. I didn't answer your note, because there was nothing to say.
Pausing an instant to master her agitation, she hurried on. "To be President means a great deal to him and to our family; it is the greatest honor that has ever come to a Garavel. Senor Alfarez is terribly angry that I refused to marry his son, to whom since I was a little child I have been engaged. Ramon also is furious; he threatened to kill himself.
Now that you know the truth, you must see at once that by no means could I marry to a person like you." "Why not?" "Ohe! Don't you understand? I shall be the finest lady in the Republic. All men will adore me. I will have suitors-not one or two as now, but many. I will be 'the beautiful Senorita Garavel, for all the great people are beautiful.
As the banker appeared upon the threshold of the ballroom a murmur ran through the crowd; faces were turned in his direction, whispers were exchanged, showing that already the news had travelled. Conscious of this notice and its reason, Garavel drew himself up; he walked with the tread of an emperor.
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