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''Absolution, padre! absolution! cried Pepito, to whom the sight of the friar brought back new life. ''Patience, my son, patience! I am very late very late and I must not be detained. Wait a little and after the sports of the day are over, I will return. ''But, padre, I shall be dead! ''Well, then, be quick! ''I have only two sins on my conscience: I have not attended mass for three weeks.
What do you say to my proposition? ''That it is Señor Pride who must answer you, not I. 'Obeying the injunction laid upon him by Adéle, Mr. Livermore affected to demur at the high price placed by Pepito on his cooperation, but finally appeared to yield to our joint solicitation. ''Well, then, the bargain is closed, said Pepito, smiling.
''In no way; I have known him only a few days. ''Well, Caballero, I own I am enchanted with his wife; I never met a woman of such matchless beauty, such fascinating manners; why, Señor, if she said to me, 'Pepito, kill your brother, and I had a brother, which, luckily, I have not, I think I should kill him.
You have simply to write to the General who commands the department, and state that Pepito is attached to your person, as a personal attendant, and that will suffice to set him at liberty. They never press people in service. 'Mr. Livermore lost no time in following Pedro's advice.
"Juana, querida," he whispered hoarsely, "get Pepito and fly to the mission. Tell the Father. Leave me; I am past help. The arrow was poisoned. Go at once." "Diego, Diego, I cannot go; let me die here with you. Let the Indian kill me, too. Where is he?" and she looked wildly around. "He is hiding among the trees by the stream. Juana, go, I command you. Santa Maria!
When Diego and Pepito were buried, the Father made a solemn and impressive address to the neophytes, painting in vivid colors the pains of hell, which those engaged in the insurrection were in danger of experiencing after death, contrasting it with the joys of those blessed ones who did God's will on earth, and received their own great reward hereafter.
The very idea of a mere foreigner daring to match himself against the great Pepito de Malaga! Serve him right if he got killed! The Doctor had borrowed a bullfighter's suit from Don Enrique; and very gay and wonderful he looked in it, though Bumpo and I had hard work getting the waistcoat to close in front and even then the buttons kept bursting off it in all directions.
Shall I enumerate the list of your victims General Ramiro, Arthur Livermore, Edward Percival, your husband, and last of all, Pepito? Your path, since you have sought this mine, is marked at every step by treachery and crime. The boldest heart must shudder to look at the ghastly procession led on by the General you poisoned. '''Tis false! God help me, 'tis false!
Pepito followed Arthur with his sharp eye, and on beholding Adéle, asked me, in a low tone: ''Who is that lady, Caballero? ''I can not say; I myself never saw her until to-day, said I; and noticing his gaze riveted on her in apparent admiration, I added: ''Do you think her pretty? ''Pretty! Holy Virgin! she is lovely enough to make a man risk his salvation to win her.
"You are English?" she said, in his own language. "Yes, my lady," replied Derrick. Pepito's foot still hurt him, and, with extreme sorrow for himself, he turned over on his back. "He is still in pain," said Donna Elvira. "Will the señor oblige me by carrying him to the house?" Derrick picked up Pepito and followed the tall and stately figure up the drive. Presently they came in sight of the cása.
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