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Andrew was thrust into a dark narrow dungeon, where, deprived of the light of the sun and of that which Preciosa's presence diffused, he felt as though he should leave it only for his grave. Preciosa and her grand-mother were taken to the corregidor's lady, who at once exclaiming, "Well might they praise her beauty," embraced her tenderly, and never was tired of looking at her.
I am an only son, and expect to inherit a considerable estate. My father is here in the capital, looking for a certain post which by all accounts he is on the point of obtaining. Being then of the rank and condition which I have declared to you, I should yet wish to be a great lord for the sake of Preciosa, that I might raise her up to my own level, and make her my equal and my lady.
Preciosa was slightly puzzled, but on the whole pleased. She knew she was worth looking at, and felt herself fit to stand the keenest scrutiny. She leaned back easily in her chair. Let time attend to the rest. "Doesn't she compose!" said Little O'Grady in a poignant whisper to Elizabeth Gibbons, as he thrust out his arms akimbo and squinted learnedly at Preciosa through his fingers.
DOÑA MATILDE. Se gloriarían entonces de llamarse tales, más que si me vieran habitando en palacios de cristal. DON EDUARDO. O, lo que es lo mismo, en casa de un vidriero. DOÑA MATILDE. Ya, si no crees tampoco en aquellas amistades que se engendran en la edad preciosa.... DON EDUARDO. En que no se sabe todavía lo que se quiere. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Qué terrible estás, Eduardo!
Now I want to know from Andrew, should matters take such a turn, that without any more of those shocks and perturbations, he should become the husband of Preciosa, would he consider himself a happy man, whether as Andrew Caballero, or as Don Juan de Cárcamo?"
"Dear, puzzled old soul!" and she crinkled up her narrow green eyes. "Can't you?" Preciosa laughed back. "'I don't know anything about such things, grandpa insisted. 'Go and see Mr. Hill, young man, or Mr. Gibbons. But the young man kept unrolling sheet after sheet. 'Grandpa, I said, 'we shall miss the whole of the first act. Then the young man had to go. He didn't want to, but he had to."
A fortnight afterwards, she returned to Madrid, with three other girls, provided with their tambourines and a new dance, besides a new stock of romances and songs, but all of a moral character; for Preciosa would never permit those in her company to sing immodest songs, nor would she ever sing them herself.
Among them were Schubert's Symphony in C, fragments of Weber's opera Préciosa, his Jubel overture, and symphonies by Gade, Gouvy, Gounod, and Reber. These symphonies are not dazzling but they are charming. They form an interesting link in the golden chain, and the public has a right and even some sort of duty to hear them.
"I doubt it not," replied the corregidor, folding Preciosa in his arms, "for the same sensations have passed through my heart as through yours; and how could so many strange particulars combine together unless it were by a miracle?"
At first the only thing that we could clearly distinguish was that she was a full-rigged ship as were the Virginia and the Preciosa but, even so, there were certain details connected with her rig which, while not being exactly peculiar, corresponded with similar details referred to in the description of the two notorious slavers, as ascertained by Captain Perry; I therefore made a lantern signal to the Eros under the shelter of our mainsail, so that the stranger to leeward might not see our lights and take the alarm calling attention to the fact that there was a suspicious sail in sight to the south-west; and this signal was simply acknowledged without comment.
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