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Will you think of that? And the mother and uncle of Luis are angry at him; he will be disinherited, and we shall be very poor, I think. But there is always my father, who loves Luis." "Luis will win his own inheritance. I think you will be very rich." "And, Juan, if you see Luis, say to him, 'Iza thinks of you continually." At this moment Rachela angrily called her charge
She rose at once, and said: "Sit here, Iza, until I have opened the door for us. Then she took a rich silk kerchief, blue as the sky, in her hand, and went to the wide, matted hall. There she found Rachela, asleep on a cane lounge. Antonia woke her. "Rachela, I wish to go into the garden for an hour." "The Senorita does the thing she wants to, Rachela would not presume to interfere.
Do not fret yourself about it, angel mio. The Americans are great fighters, and their quarrel is just. Well, then, it will be settled by the good God quickly." "Rachela says that Santa Anna has sent off a million of men to fight the Americans. Some they will cut in pieces, and some are to be sent to the mines to work in chains." "God is not dead of old age, Iza. Santa Anna is a miraculous tyrant.
He has committed every crime under heaven, but I think he will not cut the Americans in pieces." "And if the Americans should even make him go back to Mexico!" "I think that is very possible." "What then, Juan?" "He would pay for some of his crimes here the rest he would settle for in purgatory. And you, too, Iza, are you with the Americans?" "Luis Alveda says they are right." "Oh-h! I see!
"Then you disobeyed mi madre, and you know what Fray Ignatius and the Sisters have taught you about the fourth command." "Oh, indeed, I did not think of the fourth command! A sin without intention has not penance; and consider, Antonia, I am now sixteen, and they would shut me up like a chicken in its shell. Antonia, sweet Antonia, speak to Rachela, and make your little Iza happy.
What she had heard from her grandmother of the magic splendor which Wanda had missed and Iza enjoyed, flashed up before her, and her heart warmed delightedly in the voluptuous intoxication of unspeakable bliss.
He had his hand on the lad's shoulder, and was gazing into his bright face with tears and smiles and happy wonder. "Father, I had to come. And there are plenty more coming. And here is my other self the best fellow that ever lived: Darius Grant. 'Dare' we call him, father, for there is not anything he won't venture if he thinks it worth the winning. And how is mi madre and Antonia, and Iza?
A distant relative of hers, one Lergins, was an attaché of the embassy and he fell in love with his "cousin" Iza, as the mother allowed the youth to call her. As he had splendid prospects and seemed to be quite another man as regarded maternal control of Wanda's husband, mamma dismissed her brilliant ignis fatuus and tried to have a clandestine marriage come off.
"Not to Senor Houston? Who then? Tell me, Iza." "To Don Luis." "Don Luis! But he is not here. He went to the Colorado." "How stupid are you, Antonia! In New York they did not teach you to put this and that together. As soon as I saw Senor Houston, I said to myself: 'Don Luis was going to him; very likely they have met each other on the road; very likely Don Luis is back in San Antonio.
Abashed, inclined to despair, having a glimpse of a tumultuous rabble shouting: "At last he is here!" before the ruddy guillotine on a raw morning, a pale, prim man between the executioner's aids, the young Clemenceau listened to the girl, who probably resembled the Lovely Iza, but looked at the dead woman at their feet. "Yes, we are cousins! that is why I took a fancy to you at the sight.
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