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Updated: May 31, 2025
One is a representative from Habana, being at the same time a professor in its University, and another, viz., your humble servant, is a Spaniard because he was born in Habana itself. Is the other man a Peninsular, and am I not a Cuban? GUILLERMO. Assistant Colonial Secretary of Spain. This is the argument from the Peninsular standpoint, and it is probably made in good faith.
I wondered as I listened to him, for I had thought him all bad, and deemed his passion but a passing fancy. He was speaking now of Habana, a city of some refinement, where, as his wife, I would enjoy the companionship of other ladies of my own station.
All round the little shop there were pictures of banana groves and the harbour of Habana, and Cubans in white suits and scarlet sashes, smoking cigarettes in the sun and too ignorant to know that you can make four hundred per cent. by planting a banana tree. I liked it about Jeff that he didn't stop shaving. He went on just the same.
"Yes; but what should I do if she took it into her head to compose some new stanzas for me?" "You would answer through the same pen, for you can dispose of me night and day, and rely upon the utmost secrecy." "I beg of you to accept this small present; it is some negrillo snuff from Habana, which Cardinal Acquaviva has given me."
When I attended the Pan American Conference at Habana, the President of Cuba showed me a marble statue made from the original memorial that was overturned by a storm after it was erected on the Cuban shore to the memory of the men who perished in the destruction of the battleship Maine.
Of course the city was not entirely peopled by the starving as a matter of fact they formed scarcely one-fifth of the normal civil population and the life of the city was going on a good deal as usual. Stores were open, at least there was a daily train from Habana, and the barracks were full of Spanish troops.
"No, please your Excellency." Melinza smiled a slow triumphant smile. "Doña Orosia is unfortunate. I trust I shall be more successful. You would rather go to Habana as my companion, is it not so, Margarita mia?" and he stepped forward and held forth his hand to me.
Captain Judson, you and Major Ramos will go to the apothecary-shop I understand there is a very good one and look for tooth-powder and candy and the like, I shall see that the streets are cleared, then I shall endeavor to discover some pickles; but as God is my judge, I doubt if there is such a thing this side of Habana."
"If the little Margarita believed Melinza's pretty fable about Habana, and the excellent company there which his wife would enjoy, 'tis no wonder that she made a tangle of her own little web." "But Doña Orosia, think you he would deal unfairly with me? His words rang so true even a bad man may love honestly! And if I trifle with the one saving virtue in his heart, will it not be a grievous sin?"
Sebastian appeared, but for once he neither cursed nor threatened her; and Esteban, when he came, was again the lover who had courted her in Habana. It was all very wonderful, very exciting, very real. Dona Isabel found herself robed for him in her wedding-gown of white, and realized that she was beautiful.
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