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"Does she know ... does she know the joke?" "No," said Sarrion. "We are married," she said, standing squarely in front of Cousin Peligros. "Married ..." echoed the disciple of etiquette, faintly. "Married to whom?" "Marcos and I." But Cousin Peligros only gasped and covered her face with her hands. Marcos came into the room at this moment and scarcely looked at Cousin Peligros.
I knew a hoydenish little gypsy who bore the tearful name of Lagrimas. The most appropriate name I heard for these large-eyed, soft-voiced beauties was Peligros, Our Lady of Dangers. Who could resist the comforting assurance of "Consuelo"? "Blessed," says my Lord Lytton, "is woman who consoles." What an image of maiden purity goes with the name of Nieves, the Virgin of the Snows!
In a moment the carriage had swung round and the horses were going at a gallop down the hill again. The driver stood up. He had a rein in either hand and he hauled the horses round each successive corner with consummate skill. All the while he used language which would have huddled Cousin Peligros shrieking in the bottom of the carriage. Juanita and Sor Teresa stood up and looked back.
¿Cuál es la diferencia, digo ahora, de que la mujer salga también de su casa para asistir o tomar parte en un miting político donde se trata de las necesidades públicas o de la conveniencia de eligir a éste o a aquél funcionario? ¿Qué peligros puede haber para la virtud o pureza de la mujer en que ella se interese en los asuntos públicos que afectan al bienestar de las familias, puesto que la mujer en cualquier estado de su vida ocupa siempre una posición dentro de la familia? ¿Por qué ha de considerarse que la mujer dejará en las zarzas de la política la flor de sus encantos si oye a un orador político ella que está acostumbrada a oir sermones o, si el caso se presenta, pronuncia ella misma un discurso expresando su opinión sobre algún asunto de interés para la familia, sobre la necesidad de remediar ciertos males sociales o sobre la conveniencia de recoger a niños abandonados o desválidos?
They talked together until Sarrion rode forward to announce that all were ready to depart, while Cousin Peligros sat with pinched lips and disapproving face.
"Zeneta is retreating slowly before the enemy, with his small force," explained Marcos. "But why is he doing that? He must surely know that there are ladies at Torre Garda." "Ladies are not articles of war," said Juanita with a frivolous disregard of Cousin Peligros' reproving face. "And this is war." As she spoke Marcos rose and quitted the room after glancing at his watch. Juanita followed him.
General Pacheco had the reputation of moving quickly. He was rarely hampered by his ambulance and never by the enemy's wounded. He was a great general. Cousin Peligros did not appear at dinner. She had an attack of nerves instead. "I understand nerves," said Juanita lightly when she announced that Cousin Peligros' chair would remain vacant. "Was I not educated in a convent?
She fell on Cousin Peligros' mantilla and extracted two hairpins from it despite the resistance of the soft white hands. Then she twisted up the heavy plait that hung to her waist, threw back her mantilla and stood laughing before the old lady. "There I am grown-up! I am more grown-up than you, you know; for I am..." She broke off, and turning to Sarrion, asked,
The bushes in the garden seemed suddenly alive with rustling life and Sarrion dragged Juanita back from the balustrade. "No no!" she said angrily. "Yes I promised Marcos," answered Sarrion with his arm round her waist. In a moment they were in the library where they found Cousin Peligros in an easy chair with folded hands and the face of a very early Christian martyr.
Cousin Peligros was taking the siesta by which she sought to forestall a possible fatigue later in the day. There are some people who seem to have the misfortune to be absent on the rare occasions when they are wanted. "He is not coming into this room," said Juanita, coolly. "I will go down and see him." Evasio Mon greeted her with a gay smile.
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