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"What do they say of me?" asked Pepita, without deigning to look up. "Men are all fools," grumbled Jovita; "and they think girls are fools too. They say you have a pretty face; and he thinks he can make a fool of you if you are not one." "Does he?" said Pepita, with a dimpling cruel little smile. "Let him come to-morrow to-night. Let him begin." "He will begin soon enough," Jovita answered.
At this moment she chose to believe in his success, that she might justify to herself her connivance in the probable wreck of their fortunes. "The love of all my life can be no recompense for your devotion, Pepita," said Claes, deeply moved. He had scarcely uttered the words when Marguerite and Felicie entered the room and wished him good-morning.
"Who knows? Perhaps some one has cast the evil-eye upon me. But I have done no harm, and I shall do none." "No," he said, rather stupidly. "You would do no harm. Let us go in, then." And without another word they went into the house, Pepita to her bed to be awake and gaze at the darkness, José to sit with his head in his hands and thinking a thousand wild thoughts until he fell asleep.
I might have known, indeed, she said, smiling, 'by your size, even wrapped up. This, of course, is Signor Seth you are always together. But come in, she said. "'Who have you got inside, Donna Pepita? Rube asked. 'I know that I can trust you, but I can't trust others, and I don't want it known I am here. "'The house is empty, Pepita said. 'My father is out. There is only old Jacinta at home.
Could it be she Pepita who felt dizzy and could not see? who could distinguish nothing in the splendid panorama of the triumphal march? And what clamor, what excitement there was on every side! "What bulls! What men!" they were saying about her.
And for the first time in her life the rector's daughter spoke compassionately of Leam and humanely of Pepita, saying of the one how much she pitied her, having such a woman for a stepmother; of the other, that, horrible as she was, at least they knew the worst of her, which was more than they could say of madame.
That night I sent the good Pepita to identify it; to watch through the window from the garden when you were wearing it; to make it sure as the Creed. I sent her to your room late that night when you had changed your dress, that she might examine it among your jewels. And she did and will swear look you! SWEAR that it is the one given you as a child by the woman at the convent, who was your mother!
"Have you forgotten Pepita Delaguerra, whom you ruined, for whose death you are responsible? You laughed and went on your way; she was only a flower to be broken and tossed aside. Well, I've not forgotten the day on which I found her alone and deserted, nor the hour of her death." "Chiquita," he interrupted, "if suffering can atone for that misdeed "
During his absence from home, the observant and quick-witted Felipe had learned not only many new things, but had made the acquaintance of other women as well. At its best, the love of the passionate, hot-blooded Felipe and the gentle Pepita could have endured only for a time.
"Because they are in love with him all of them," replied Manuel, sweepingly. "Why?" said Pepita, again. " Why?" Manuel echoed, somewhat bewildered by the frank, indifferent ignoring of all natural reasons in this question "'why? Because he is so tall and strong and well made, because he is handsome, because he is more daring and graceful than any of the others because he is Sebastiano."
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