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My eye fell upon the negress, who had risen, and, running out upon the parapet with uplifted arms, shouted in terrified accents: "Valgame Dios ninas! El cayman! el cayman!" I looked across to the other side of the pond. A fearful object met my eyes the cayman of Mexico! The hideous monster was slowly crawling over the low wall, dragging his lengthened body from a bed of aquatic plants.
When the lashings where taken off the ninas, they waddled to a corner and sat there. The children of the sea are a species of penguin. Their bodies are furnished with a downy covering which is neither hair nor feather. They stand about two feet eight inches high and have very short, but very strong legs terminating in web feet. They are of a grey color with white breast.
"Yes, master; he has been up for hours." "Ha! where is he?" "In the garden, master." "Alone?" "No, master; he is with the ninas." "Happy, light-hearted Clayley! No jealous thoughts to torture him!" mused I, as I buckled on my stock.
He had often heard of the existence of such creatures in the remote caverns, but had scarcely credited it. Fishermen had spoken of them though few claimed to have ever seen one. They are called ninas del maris-children of the sea. He had heard they were gentle and affectionate in captivity but savage in their wild state.
"`Las ninas de Durango Commigo bailandas, Al cielo saltandas, En el fandango en el fan-dang o. "Ah! here comes Monsieur Saint Vrain. Ecoutez! He never go to fandango. Sacre! how monsieur dance! like un maitre de ballet. Mais he be de sangre blood Francais. Ecoutez! "`Al cielo saltandas, En el fandango en el fan-dang ." "Ha! Gode!" "Monsieur?"
"Then the thing is really serious this tale of a crazy woman you want him to marry? I must say that in his place, with these money-matters evidently on the rise, I should have backed out of your proposals just as he did. Ninas and Ophelias are all very well on the stage, but in a home " "In a home, when they bring a 'dot, we can be their guardian," replied Cerizet, sententiously.
What would a French woman or an English woman have done? Given up the world for their lover. Given up a thousand Nicholases, sacrificed a hundred Ninas that's real life. That's real, I tell you. What feeling is there in my soul that counts for a moment beside my feeling for Sherry? I say and I feel and I know that I would die for him, die with him, happily, gladly. Those are no empty words.
DON PEDRO. ¿Qué entiendes tú de eso? ... dila que venga. DON PEDRO. Pues, y como le iba a usted diciendo, Sr. D. Eduardo, yo soy demasiado buen padre para pretender ... luego, ya voy a viejo, estoy viudo, no tengo más que esta hija ... a la que quiero como a las niñas de mis ojos ... no soy además amigo de lloros ni tristezas dentro de casa, y en suma....
Harriet knew the smooth coldness, the contemptuous superiority that within a year or two would blast the youth and self-confidence of a dozen Ninas; she knew what his moral code was, a code that made desire and opportunity the only law, and that honoured passion as the crowning emotion of life.
The others were killed upon the spot most of them impaled upon the spears of the Apaches! The women were left untouched: for the Indians rarely kill our women. Them they reserve for a different destiny. Ah! cavallero! a destiny worse than death! Not one of them escaped. The poor ninas were all made captives; and each, borne off in the arms of a swarthy savage, was mounted upon his horse.
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