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Updated: May 8, 2025
She smiled her old imperious smile as she threw herself into a tired-looking chair, while her host, with very obvious reluctance, sank into one just opposite. For an instant her beauty smote upon his brain. He leaned forward until his face touched the lapful of rare old laces that flowed wave-like from waist to knee on the dress of the girl he loved.
It appears that the Aztecs, long before the arrival of the Spaniards, had been in the habit of worshipping in this very place a goddess, who was known as Teotenantzin, "mother-god," or Tonantzin, "our mother." She told him to go to the bishop, and tell him to build her a temple on the place where she stood, giving him a lapful of flowers as a token.
Francis was at liberty to look elsewhere for a lapful of money.
"Why don't you open it?" came in her ear from Floretta. Maria was leaning forward also, over her lapful of carnations which John Sargent had presented to her. "Why don't she open it?" she whispered to Floretta. They were all quite oblivious of the speaker, who moved nervously back and forth in front of them, so screening them somewhat from the observation of the audience.
Two of the females had been for some time past putting their heads together and casting glances at Marcia. One of them now addressed her. "Signorina, do you love almonds?" The speaker had a lapful of them. "Yes, I love them; when I can get them," said Marcia pettishly, and eyeing the fruit with ill-concealed desire; "but yours is not the hand to give me any, I trow."
There was nothing to cry over, nothing even to regret; she knew now that she loved him, and she was glad glad even of this. If the bitterness in her heart was but the taste of knowledge, she would not let it go; she would keep both the knowledge and the bitterness. In the next room Mammy Riah was rocking back and forth upon the hearth, crooning to herself while she carded a lapful of wool.
I am glad I am always well. At least I was never ill but once, and that was long ago." She sprang up and began to look about her. "If I could find some large leaves " "I will fill my pockets." She looked helplessly at her own garments, and then colored vividly, thinking if this young man were not here she would gather a lapful. Why should she have this strange consciousness?
I looked down on the little beggar that had painted me for the second salon, and lo, in a flash she was on her feet, the lapful of good things tumbled to the ground, and Kitty was off. I was bitterly disappointed in that girl, Mag! I was altogether mistaken in my diagnosis of her. Hers is only a physical cleverness, a talented dexterity. She had no resource in time of danger but her legs.
She was bareheaded, and the wind had rumpled the curls around her forehead; the front of her light blue dress she wore light blue in a manner which might have been called daring had it implied the slightest thought was caught up to hold her lapful of flowers; a sheaf of roses rested on her shoulder, and some feathery vines trailed almost to the ground, while in her left hand, their stems taller than her own head, were two stately sunflowers, which were to brighten the hall.
At this bitter sight Maimie stopped blankly, as if all her lapful of darling treasures were suddenly spilled, and then for very disdain she could not sob; in a swell of protest against all puling cowards she ran to St. Govor's Well and hid in Tony's stead. When the ayah reached the gate and saw Tony far in front she thought her other charge was with him and passed out.
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