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Gerald has fitted up Magnolia Lawn beautifully, because I told him I wished we could live there. He said, that day we were there, that he would try to make some arrangement with Papasito's creditors, and I do believe he has, and that I shall not have to hide much longer. He has been fitting up the house as if it were for a queen. Isn't he kind?"
"My dear children," said she, "I have heard something that will distress you very much. Something neither you nor I ever suspected. Your mother was a slave." "Our mother a slave!" exclaimed Rosa, coloring vehemently. "Whose slave could she be, when she was Papasito's wife, and he loved her so? It is impossible, Madame."
Dear friend, I wonder you can believe such things." "The world is full of strange things, my child, stranger than anything you ever read in story-books." "If she was only Papasito's slave," said Flora, "I don't think Mamita found that any great hardship." "She did not, my dear. I don't suppose she ever thought of it; but a great misfortune has grown out of it."
"Couldn't we go into Papasito's garden one little minute, and take one sip from the fountain, and just one little walk round the orange-grove?" "It wouldn't be safe, my dear. There's no telling who may be lurking about. Mr. Fitzgerald charged me not to let you go out of doors. But you can go to my chamber, and take a last look of the house and garden."
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