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I found nothing to excite the smallest suspicion, and was therefore content to return to the room and to throw myself lazily down and go off for a siesta, in the wakeful intervals of which I could hear that Pepita had given way, and that the delighted Rube was arranging with her how she should escape and join him when the army retired; for of course neither had any idea that her father would consent to her marrying one of the hated enemies of his country.
They will get you into a scrape some day. "Rube laughed. 'I am big enough to get out of it if it does, Seth; but you know I did feel uncommon soft toward Pepita, and really thought of marrying and taking her back to Missouri. "'Only she wouldn't come, Rube? "'Just so, Seth, said he, laughing.
"Pepita Delaguerra?" he repeated. "I felt all along that she was Don Felipe's child, the resemblance is so striking, and I wonder the others did not notice it, but I never connected her with Pepita; perhaps because it is so long since she died. How strange that he should have introduced his own child without knowing it!" "Yes," returned Chiquita. "And yet it is not so strange after all.
He had the nice little house, and Pepita had holiday garments as gay and pretty as any other girl, and looked, when dressed in them, gayer and ten times prettier than all the rest. That was what he had looked forward to most of all, and his end was attained. And when he walked out with her, all the young fellows who were allowed to come near and many who were not fell in love.
Before Jovita and she had arrived, while he was making his small preparations for them, he had seen a bull-fight or so, and no point of detail had escaped his deliberate mind. He always remembered things José. "But you shall go," he said; "you shall go and see for yourself the very next time. It comes next week. We will go and take Jovita." Pepita clapped her hands for joy.
He wanted to paint her; she was a magnificent model for a certain work he had in mind. He said it blushingly, stammering, but López laughed at his timidity and seemed disposed to protect him. "Oh, Pepita? A wonderful woman, in spite of the fact that she is on the decline. With all her school-girl face, if you could only see her at a party! She drinks like a fish. She's a terror!"
Balthazar lifted his eyes to heaven, then looked at his daughter, folded his arms, and said, after a pause, during which his face recovered an expression his children had not seen upon it for ten long years, "Pepita, why are you not here to praise our child!" He strained Marguerite to him, unable to utter another word, and went back to the parlor.
They will force him to it. Listen! it is Pepita whose eyes are on you. You must feel them. You have not forgotten. No. And it is Pepita Pepita!" All the strength of her body and soul she threw into her gaze all the fire of her young wildly beating heart and throbbing pulses. "You must hear," she said. "Pepita! Pepita!"
"It shall be more amusing " "There is Jovita with her old woman now," interrupted Pepita. "I will go and speak to them." She was gone the next instant her movement was like the flight of a bird. Sebastiano stood and stared after her in silence until Juan addressed him respectfully. "She is very wonderful," he said. "She changes her mind before one knows.
Pepita needed no rest; her little feet danced as she moved; as she made her preparations for the morning meal she chatted incessantly to José, asking a thousand questions. Everything conspired to add to her joys.
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