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Russell crossed the room and sat down beside Benicia. "I should like to hear you sing under those cypresses out on the ocean about six or eight miles from here," he said to her. "I rode down the coast yesterday. Jove! what a coast it is!" "We will have a merienda there on some evening," said Doña Eustaquia, who sat beside her daughter.
She controlled herself in a moment, and swayed her graceful body over Prudencia, kissing her lightly on the cheek. "Thou baby, to marry!" she said, softly. "Thou didst take away my breath. Thou dost look no more than fourteen years. I had forgotten the grand merienda of thy eighteenth birthday."
Monterey danced every night and all night of that week, either at Alvarado's or at the Custom-house, and every afternoon met at the races, the bull-fight, a merienda, or to climb the greased pole, catch the greased pig by its tail as it ran, or exhibit skill in horsemanship.
"I feel ten years younger than I did a quarter of an hour ago. There was a time alas! when I could stand the suns of California for six hours at a stretch, but " "Ay, yes, we grow more old every year. Is twenty now since we merienda all day and dance all night when I am a visitor here, no more; and you are the thin boy with the long arms, and legs, and try to grow the mustache."
Benicia tossed her spirited head, but took her guitar from its case and called to the other girls to accompany her. They withdrew from their various flirtations with audible sighs, but it was Benicia's merienda, and in a moment a dozen white hands were sweeping the long notes from the strings. Russell moved to a lower rock, and lying at Benicia's feet looked upward.
"It is very beautiful on the big rocks to watch the ocean, under the moonlight." "A merienda?" "A peek-neek." "Good! You will not forget that?" She smiled at his boyishness. "It will be at the next moon. I promise." Benicia sang another song, and a half-dozen caballeros stood about her, regarding her with glances languid, passionate, sentimental, reproachful, determined, hopeless.
There was more than one bull-bear fight, and twice a week at least they carried their owners to the hills of the Mission ranch, or the rocky cliffs and gorges above Yerba Buena, the Indian servants following with great baskets of luncheon, perhaps roasting an ox whole in a trench. This the Californians called barbecue and the picnic merienda.
I have often looked at it through the glass and longed for a merienda in the deep shade." She turned to Rezanov with lips apart. "Could we not oh, senor! have our dinner on shore?" "It is only for you to select the spot. We can sail many miles before it is time for dinner, and you may find a place even more to your liking. I fancy we can not go far here. It looks swampy and shallow.
The next morning we started at an early hour for the Rancho de las Rocas, three leagues from Santa Barbara. The populace remained in the booth, but we were joined by all our friends of the town, and once more were a large party. We were bound for a merienda and a carnesada, where bullocks would be roasted whole on spits over a bed of coals in a deep excavation.
Within its ruined walls mass was celebrated once a year in honour of its patron, Saint Charles Borroméo, and after the religious service was over the people joined in a joyous merienda under the trees, during which vast quantities of tamales, enchiladas, and other distinctive Spanish-American viands were generously distributed to friend and stranger, Catholic and Protestant. Mr.
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