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"I'm a pretty looking old rhinoceros to be gettin' stuck on a kid, ain't I, 'Tonia?" said he. "Not verree good thing," agreed Antonia, sagely, "for too much old man to likee muchacha ." "You bet it ain't," said Dry Valley, grimly. "It's dum foolishness; and, besides, it hurts."
No, thou didst mistake. It was not THAT he meant?" "Thy life to a quarter peso that the little Faquita does not mistake," said the evident satirist of the household. "Trust to Gomez' muchacha to understand a proposal."
You start you turn pale you flash your eyes, senora, but you think you have deceived me all these years. You think I did not see your game at Rosario yes, even when that foolish Castro muchacha first put that idea in your head. Who furnished you the facts you wanted? I Mother of God!
"But it wouldn't be that kind of scenery," he added. "How tall are you, muchacha?" Her glance came around in surprise. "I don't know. About five foot five, I think. Why?" "I'm working on that ad. How would this do? 'Miss Three-Quarters-Past-Seventeen wants to meet up with gentleman between eighteen and forty-eight. Object, matrimony.
In a few moments Concho was again disporting with it; chasing it here and there, rolling it in his palms and laughing with boy-like glee at its elusive freaks and fancies. "Ah, sprightly one, skipjack, there thou goest, come here. This way, now I have thee, little one, come, muchacha, come and kiss me," until he had quite forgotten the defection of his companions.
"Muchacha mia! you see who we are, and know all three of us. We know you, Nacena even to your tenderest secret; which has been revealed to us in the dialogue just held between yourself and Mam Shebotha. Every word of that we've heard, with the lies she's been telling you.
He! he! he!" he laughed piteously; "and she smiled and smiled and broke the coward's heart, as Maruja might. And when he was gone, she bade thee bring her water to wash the filthy Judas stain from her hand." "Santa Ana!" said Faquita, shrugging her shoulders. "She did what the veriest muchacha would have done. When he had gone, she sat down and cried."
With only a blind instinct of some dreadful sacrilege in this act, Father Pedro would have rushed forward, when the girl's voice struck his ear. He stopped, breathless. It was not Francisco, but Juanita, the little mestiza. "But are you sure you are not pretending to love me now, as you pretended to think I was the muchacha you had run away with and lost?
He even remembered, to his alarm, to have seen brides of twelve and mothers of fourteen among the native villagers. This might also account for the suggestion of equality in her manner, and even for a slight coquettishness which he thought he had noticed in her when he had addressed her playfully as a muchacha.
The Gothic spires, the Moorish domes, the weird and mysterious caves, which last night had given more than a touch of awe to her majestic bedchamber, now looked a good deal less like the ruins of mediæval castles and the homes of elfin sprites and gnomes. "Buenos dios, muchacha," a voice called cheerfully to her. She did not need to turn to know to whom it belonged.
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