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Updated: May 13, 2025
She stopped to watch Luis and the colt, and Luis coaxed her to give him an egg, which he was feeding to the colt when his mother saw and called to him shrilly from the house. The peona ducked guiltily and ran, stooping, beside a stone wall that hid her from sight until she had slipped into the kitchen.
Estan himself was pottering about the corral, and Luis, a boy about eighteen years old, was fooling with a colt in a small enclosure that had evidently been intended for a garden and had been permitted to grow up in weeds and grass instead. After a while a peona came out and fed the chickens, and hunted through the sheds for eggs, which she carried in her apron.
At last, however, her scruples, for some reason or other, are all overcome, and the Queen of Heaven owns her attachment. She gave her fair hands to him, and behold, Before three swiftest kisses he had told, They vanish far away! Peona went Home through the gloomy wood in wonderment. And so, like many other romances, terminates the "Poetic Romance" of Johnny Keats, in a patched-up wedding.
So he suited his speech to the gentle ways of the old señora, and led her back to the shelter of the porch as tenderly as Estan could have done. He sent the peona for a lamp to replace the one that had broken when Estan fell with it in his hand.
"My son my son!" the old woman was wailing, on her knees beside a long, inert figure lying on its back on the hard-packed earth. Back of her the peona hovered, hysterical, useless. Luis, half dressed and a good deal dazed yet from sleep and the suddenness of his waking, knelt beside his mother, patting her shoulder in futile affection, staring down bewilderedly at Estan. So Starr found them.
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