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So he drifted to her side, danced with her, flirted with her, devoted himself to her caprices, until every one was noting, and I thought that Prudencia would bawl outright. Just in the moment, however, when our nerves were humming, Don Guillermo thumped on the door with his stick and ordered us all to go to bed.
"I shall always mend my stockings," said Prudencia, "I myself." "Yes," said one of the older women, "thou wilt be a good wife and waste nothing." Valencia laid her arm about Chonita's waist. "I wish to meet Don Diego Estenega," she said. "Wilt thou not present him to me?" "Thou art very forward," said Chonita, coldly. "Canst thou not wait until he comes thy way?"
She had suffered, and not for her mother. "She shall suffer no more," he thought. "We hunt bear to-night," he heard the governor say at length. "I should like to go," said Chonita, quickly. "I should like to go out to-night." Immediately there was a chorus from all the Other women, excepting the Princess Hélène and Prudencia; they wanted to go too.
I thought mebbe," she added, with a sly glance at the basket, "that if I brought a little something extry, we might get an invitation to take a bite of luncheon, but we don't seem to." "Oh! but who could have supposed that I was to have all the good things in the world?" cried Delmonte, merrily. "This is really too good to be true. Help me, Donna Prudencia, while I set out the feast!
Her white face was delicately cut: the lines of time indicated spiritual sweetness rather than strength. Chonita roved between the sala and an adjoining room where four Indian girls embroidered the yellow poppies on the white satin. I was reading one of her books, the "Vicar of Wakefield." "Wilt thou be glad to see Reinaldo, my Prudencia?" asked Don Guillermo, as the song finished.
He threw his arms about her, kissing and caressing her. "My sister! My sister! Thou wilt! Say that thou wilt!" But she flung him off as if he were a snake. "Wilt thou go?" she asked. "Ay! I go. But he shall suffer. I swear it! I swear it!" And he rushed from the room. Chonita sat there, staring more fixedly at the floor than when Estenega had left her. Reinaldo did not go to his Prudencia.
Don Annunzio's hat was already in his hand and he was bowing to Rita with all the grace his size allowed; but now he implored them to enter the house, which he declared he occupied henceforward only at their pleasure. "If the señorita will graciously descend!" said the good man. "On the instant I call my wife. Prudencia! Where are you, then? Visitors, Prudencia; visitors of distinction.
Prudencia began to cry. Then, for the moment, Chonita was forgotten. Two horses galloped into the court-yard. "Reinaldo!" The door had but an inside knob: Don Guillermo threw it open as a young man sprang up the three steps of the corridor, followed by a little man who carefully picked his way. "Yes, I am here, my father, my mother, my sister, my Prudencia! Ay, Eustaquia, thou too."
"What news has the wash-tub mail to-day?" asked the girl, with an attempt at lightness. "Did an enemy invade the South this morning, and have you heard it already, as when General Kearney came? Is General Castro still in Baja California, or has he fled to Mexico? Has Doña Prudencia Iturbi y Moncada given a ball this week at Santa Barbara? Have Don Diego and Doña Chonita ?"
One shot did go off, while a high private was trying if his cartridge fitted to the chamber; the charge singed the hair of a captain, and the bullet lodged in the middle of the word "Prudencia" on the façade of the Municipality.
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