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He was a handsome man, with a tall figure, and a smooth strong face; but about him hung the indolence of the Californian. "Very well," he said, "take me to her." He asked her to dance, and after a waltz Eulogia said she was tired, and they sat down within a proper distance of Doña Pomposa's eagle eye. "What do you think of the women of San Luis Obispo?" asked Eulogia, innocently.
The wagon jolted down the cañon, the mules plunging, the vaqueros shouting; but the moon glittered like a silvered snow peak, the wild green forest was about them, and even Eulogia grew a little sentimental as Abel Hudson's blue eyes bent over hers and his curly head cut off Doña Pomposa's view. "Dear señorita," he said, "thy tongue is very sharp, but thou hast a kind heart.
Thou shalt not put on a smock or a gown in that chest if thou goest naked! But thou shalt marry him, I say!" "No." "Oh, thou ice-hearted little devil!" Even Doña Pomposa's stomach was trembling with rage, and her fingers were jumping. "Whom then wilt thou marry? Garfias?" "No." "Thou wilt be an old maid like Aunt Anastacia." "Perhaps." "O h h Who is this?"
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