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Updated: June 5, 2025
There was a great movement of the populace on the Plaza-Mayor, that forum of the ancient city of kings; artisans were profiting by the coolness to quit their daily labors; they circulated actively among the crowd, crying their various merchandise; the ladies of Lima, carefully enveloped in the mantillas which mask their countenances, with the exception of the right eye, darted stealthy glances on the surrounding masses; they undulated through the groups of smokers, like foam at the will of the waves; other señoras, in ball costume, coiffed only with their abundant hair or some natural flowers, passed in large calêches, throwing on the caballeros nonchalant regards.
A magnificent carriage, drawn by four fine horses, at that moment entered the Plaza-Mayor; its only occupant was a man of proud mien, mingled with sadness; he gazed, without seeming to see them, on the multitude assembled to breathe the coolness of the evening.
Martin Paz might have conquered had he remained on the Plaza-Mayor. He fell into the arms of Don Vegal. "To the mountains, my son; flee to the mountains! now I command it." "Is my enemy indeed dead?" said Martin Paz, returning to the corpse of André Certa. A man was that moment searching it, and held a pocket-book which he had taken from it.
The Plaza-Mayor was all alive; the cries and the tumult were redoubled; the guards on horseback, stationed before the central portico of the viceroy's palace, situated on the north side of the square, could scarcely maintain their position amid the shifting crowd; there were merchants for all customers and customers for all merchants.
"He came to her assistance this evening on the Plaza-Mayor," added the old duenna. "Her assistance! how?" The old woman related the scene with downcast head. "Ah! my daughter wish to kneel among these Christians!" exclaimed the Jew, angrily; "and I knew nothing of all this! You deserve that I should dismiss you." The duenna went out of the room in confusion.
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