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Even in bandit circles the line is drawn somewhere, and in Angel's band it was drawn immediately after Porfirio Cortes. Angel rode, one leg thrown over his pommel, which enabled him to chat comfortably with Cortes. They were talking of Juan Pachuca. "A slippery one, that," Cortes had remarked, keenly. "I don't believe he means to throw in his lot with us.
Porfirio Diaz possessed and exercised both. He was, in fact, just the man for the times.
I said, "My feelings overcame me I sinned I am utterly unworthy. Punish me for my sin as you will, I shall not defend myself. But do not, and do not you, madam, I entreat, punish me for the one thing I have done this night of which I may be rightly proud." "Bah," said he, "you are a fool, I see. And now, madam " "Yes, Porfirio," said she, poor soul.
Porfirio Diaz was not a President, but, in all save the name, an absolute monarch, and inevitably there formed about his throne a cordon of men as unpatriotic and self-interested as he may have been patriotic and disinterested as to a great extent he undeniably was. These men were the Cientificos. The term is, of course, not their own.
There followed a complimentary exchange of greetings and the usual flow of small talk. Ricardo had suffered a severe toothache the same abominable affliction that had lost Porfirio Diaz an empire. It had been a dry spring, but, praise God, the water still held in the resaca his two sons were branding calves in one of the outer pastures and there had been a very good calf crop indeed.
It had always been intended that I should study in Padua, rather than in Paris or Salamanca, if for no better reason than that that had been Father Danvers' University, and that he knew many of the professors there among others, Dr. Porfirio Lanfranchi, who became my host and guardian, and had been class-mate and room-mate of our chaplain's.
Close to my hotel was the "Casa Serdan," its windows all broken and its stucco front riddled with bullet holes, for it was here that two brothers, barricading themselves against the government of Porfirio Diaz, spilled the first blood of the long series of revolutions and worse that has followed. Already the name of the street had been changed to "Calle de los Martires de Noviembre, 1910."
During the last 32 years of that time Porfirio Diaz was president. Just prior to 1912 a revolution was begun against what had come to be called the Diaz government, and Diaz was compelled to flee from Mexico. The revolution was headed by Francisco Madero, who was then made president.
Now you pretend to grieve at your deliverance; you ask me to respect the memory of your jailer! Decency? Delicacy? What are they except artificialities, which vanish in times of stress? Alexander the Great, Caesar, Napoleon, Porfirio Diaz they were strong, purposeful men; they lived as I live. Señora, you dally with love."
The Mohonk Conference and President Hayes. Excursion with Andrew Carnegie to Mexico, California, and Oregon. Meetings with Cornell students. Cathedral of Mexico. Our reception by President Porfirio Diaz and his ministers. Beauty of California in spring. Its two universities. My relations with Stanford; pleasure in this visit to it; character of its buildings; my lectures there.
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