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Updated: June 13, 2025
When one of the guards seized him by the arm he collapsed like an empty sack." The commentary of Ariston and the apprentice proved endless; the boys arrived at the Emergency Hospital and were told that the corpses, those of Milagros and Leandro, had been taken to the Morgue.
They fired their rifles and pistols from their pallets with such deadly aim that Milagros turned a cannon shotted with grape and canister upon them. They were blown to pieces, but at the entrance of the door they left forty dead Mexicans." "Ah Senor, Senor! tell me no more. My heart can not endure it." "Mi madre," answered Isabel, "we must hear it all.
"I am an inch taller than Milagros, but Milagros is getting most preposterously fat. The girls tell her that she will soon be like Sor Dorothea who is so huge that she has to be hauled up from her knees like a sack that has been saying its prayers. That stupid Milagros cries when they say it." "Is Milagros going to be a nun?" asked Sarrion, absent-mindedly.
They are all named out of the calendar of saints and virgin martyrs. A large majority are christened Mary; but as this sacred name by much use has lost all distinctive meaning, some attribute, some especial invocation of the Virgin, is always coupled with it. The names of Dolores, Mercedes, Milagros, recall Our Lady of the Sorrows, of the Gifts, of the Miracles.
While Leandro would be away working in the shoeshop, Lechuguino would visit the proof-reader's family; he now saw Milagros with the full consent of her parents. Leandro was, or pretended to be, the only person unaware of Milagros' new beau.
Soon Leandro carne to an abrupt stop and placed his hand upon Manuel's shoulder. "Do you believe," he asked, "that if a woman deceives a man, he has the right to kill her?" "I don't believe he has," answered Manuel, staring into Leandro's eyes. "Well, if a man has the guts he does it whether he has a right to or not. "But, the deuce! Has Milagros deceived you? Were you married to her?
Leandro's blustering outburst appealed to one of the maidens, who turned to look at the youth and smiled at him; but Milagros was not in the least affected, and looking back, she repeatedly sought the group of three men with her glance. At this juncture there appeared the fellow whom Leandro had designated with the sobriquet of Lechuguino, in company of the proof-reader and his wife.
"And just as they were about to catch him, he killed himself," one of them was saying. Out of curiosity Manuel hastened his step, and approached a group that was discussing the event at the entrance to the Corralon. "Where did this fellow come from that killed himself?" asked Manuel of Aristas. "Why! It was Leandro!" "Leandro!" "Yes, Leandro, who killed Milagros and then killed himself."
For nuns have a profound distrust of man as a mass and a confiding faith in the few individuals with whom they have to deal. The girls were allowed to watch the colchonero at his work, more especially the elder girls such as Juanita de Mogente and her friend Milagros of the red-gold hair.
The three women blamed Milagros for everything; she was a common strumpet, an evil woman, a selfish, wretched ingrate. One of the neighbours of the Corrala indicated a strange detail: when the public doctor came to examine Milagros and remove her corset so that he might determine the wound, he found a tiny medallion containing a portrait of Leandro.
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