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"I much appreciate your friendship, Capitan Brotherton. You give me much advice that is good for me, and tell me many things. It is like the ocean wind when you have live long in the hot valley. Yes, dear friend, I forget you are in the navy of the conqueror." "Mamacita," broke in Benicia's light voice, "tell us now when we can have the peek-neek." "To-morrow night." "Surely?" "Surely, niñita."
"Rather would I see two good Catholics united, dear señora," and he turned suddenly to Benicia, who also had remained in the church, almost at her mother's side. "Mamacita!" cried Benicia. Doña Eustaquia opened her arms and caught the girl passionately to her heart; and Brotherton left the church. The April flowers were on the hills.
"Mamacita, good night," and Benicia, who had fluttered into the house and found a reboso, kissed her mother, waved her hand to Brotherton, and stepped from the corridor to the street. "Come here, señorita!" cried her mother. "No walk to-night, for I have not the wish to walk myself." "But I go with my husband, mamma." "Oh, no more of that joke without sense!
"Enchiladas? You have them! Now, both you go over to the corner and talk not loud, for I wish to hear my friend read." Russell, lifting his shoulders, did as he was bidden. Benicia, with a gay laugh, kissed her mother and flitted like a butterfly about the room, singing gay little snatches of song. "Oh, mamacita, mamacita," she chanted. "Thou wilt not believe thou hast lost thy little daughter.
We shall meet them everywhere every night every day. And my new gown, mamacita! The beautiful silver spangles! There is not such a gown in Monterey! Ay, I must go. And they say the Americans hop like puppies when they dance. How I shall laugh at them! And it is not once in the year that I have a chance to speak English, and none of the other girls can.
"In another week. Thou art so well! I would not have thee draw too heavily on thy little strength. Another month and thou wilt not remember that thou hast been ill. Then we will go to the rancho, where thou and thy little one will have sun all day and no fog." "Have I not a good husband, mamacita?" "Yes; I love him like my own son.
Winship, with a smile. 'And you say we can't go in there before we go to bed, mamacita? whispered Bell in her mother's ear, as the boys said good-night and went towards their tent. 'My dear, she answered decidedly, with a fond kiss for each of the girls, 'Polly herself asked me to keep everybody away. Polly herself wanted to be alone! Would wonders never cease?
And all the girls, all the girls, all the girls, will go to this ball. Oh, mamacita!" Her mother was obliged to laugh. "Well, well, I cannot refuse you anything; you know that! Go to the ball! Ay, yi, do not smother me! As you have said that little head can think we must meet these insolent braggarts sooner or later.
Be sure thou goest no farther! I would not let thee go there alone were it not so near. And be sure thou speakest to no man in the street." "No, mamacita, I will speak to no man in the street, but one awaits me in the house. Hasta luego." And she flitted out of the door and up the street. A few hours later Doña Eustaquia sat in the large and cooler sala with Captain Brotherton.
"I think very likely you are right; but perhaps I can put the matter so that it will strike him in some other light." "Very well, mamacita; I 'm resigned. It will break up all our nice little two-ing, but we will be his guardian angel. I will be his guardian and you his angel, and oh, how he would dislike it if he knew it! But wait until odious Mr. Tony meets him to-night!
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