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Updated: June 6, 2025
For you have done that which was your only chance of happiness. 'Why do you always help me? she asked, as she had asked a hundred times. 'Because happiness is so rare that I hate to see it wasted, he answered, going towards the door with a grim laugh. He passed out of the room and crossed the patio slowly.
He watched while Linton rode eastward over the big level; then he grinned and walked to the ranchhouse, going around the front and standing in the wide gateway where he saw Barbara sitting on a bench in the patio, staring straight ahead, meditatively, unaware that he was standing in the gateway, watching her. Harlan watched the girl for a long time until she turned and saw him.
Not even in memory am I willing to live over again those three days when Father Antonio, the old major-domo, and myself would meet each other in the galleries, in the patio, in the empty rooms, moving in the stillness of the house with heavy hearts and desolate eyes, which seemed to demand, "What is there to do?" Of course, precautions were taken against the Lugareños.
The parti-colored houses are of the usual Cuban type, mostly of one story, built with a patio or open courtyard in the centre, well filled with flowering plants, among which were observed the attractive coral-tree, which resembles a baby palm, and the universal banana.
He felt he had wasted the evening, but as he walked back to the line he thought about the man whom Kenwardine had sent away. He did not think the fellow was one of the servants, and it seemed strange that Richter should have got up and stood in front of Don Sebastian when the latter was trying to see across the patio.
"Yet I know that there will be a duelo," he comforted himself with thinking, as he limped wearily across the patio. Never have I seen them so dark: like the bay when a storm is riding upon the wind. And it will be riatas for so Manuel told me. Me, I will wager my saddle upon the Señor Jack, even though riatas be the weapons.
All day long city councilors would go trotting back and forth from the City Hall to the Brull patio. The few enemies don Ramón had in the Council meddlers, doña Bernarda called them idiots who swallowed everything in print provided it were against the King and religion attacked the cacique persistently, censuring everything he did. Don Ramón's henchmen would tremble with impotent rage.
The general's aides-de-camp had been put in charge, and all that unlimited funds and a large experience of such matters could accomplish was done to make the occasion the memorable feature of a memorable historic event. The great patio of the palace of San Cosme was floored and roofed over to serve as a ball-room.
Each house of the better class has its square inner court, or patio, round which the dwelling is constructed, and this is ornamented more or less prettily, according to the owner's taste, potted plants always forming a prominent feature, together with an array of caged singing birds.
Just then the old, gilt French clock on the white marble mantelpiece slowly chimed the hour of five. The sound of the clock caused Blanch to pause. "Five o'clock," she said, calming herself. "Don Felipe will be waiting for us in the garden." "That's so," answered Bessie, rising from the sofa and crossing the room to the window which looked out over the patio into the garden.
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