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Updated: June 8, 2025
And then I wanted to see you once more before I leave the world." "Before you do what?" "I am not going into a convent; I cannot leave my father. I am going to retire to the most secluded of our ranchos, to see no more of the world or its people. I shall take my father with me. Reinaldo and Prudencia will remain at Casa Grande." "Nonsense!" he exclaimed, impatiently.
And so Gracian is quite right in saying that the only way to win affection from people is to show the most animal-like simplicity of demeanor para ser bien quisto, el unico medio vestirse la piel del mas simple de los brutos. Balthazar Graeian, Oraculo manual, y arte de prudencia, 240.
Even here, rough and wild as her surroundings were, she gave much thought to her dress; to-night her blonde harmonious loveliness was properly framed in a toilette of mignonette greens, fresh from Paris. A moment later Reinaldo and Prudencia appeared, the former as splendid a caballero as ever, although wearing the chastened air of matrimony, the latter pre-maternally consequential.
She controlled herself in a moment, and swayed her graceful body over Prudencia, kissing her lightly on the cheek. "Thou baby, to marry!" she said, softly. "Thou didst take away my breath. Thou dost look no more than fourteen years. I had forgotten the grand merienda of thy eighteenth birthday."
"Do not refuse, my Prudencia, if thou lovest me. Wilt thou do it?" "Sure, my Reinaldo." The family retired early in its brief seasons of reclusion, and at ten o'clock Casa Grande was dark and quiet. Reinaldo opened his door and listened cautiously, then stepped softly to the green bench and felt beneath for the lump of tallow. It was there.
"If I can get you away before they see us " "Me! but what will become of the others?" cried Rita, under her breath. "I cannot desert Manuela and Marm Prudence Donna Prudencia." "I am going to save you," said Jack Delmonte, quietly. "If for no other reason, I have just given my word to Donna Prudencia. The rest I'll get back as soon as I can, that's all I can say. Follow me! hark!"
Is it not so, my Prudencia?" she cried to the girl, who was curled on one corner of the table, gloating over the treasures she knew her uncle's generosity would make her own. "Look, how these little diamonds flash! And the embroidery on this crêpe! a dozen eyes went out ay! yi! This satin is like a tile! These fans were made in Spain! This is as big as a windmill.
Prudencia, the mantilla of the donas depending from a comb six inches high, was attired in a white satin gown with a train of portentous length, and looked like a kitten with a long tail. Reinaldo was dazzling.
I profess myself ready to conduct him through my poor premises; I lead him through the parlour, which he had not sense to admire, to the kitchen, to our own apartment, my cherished one. All the time my heart flutters like a wounded dove. I cry in my soul, 'All depends on the wit of that child. If she had but gone with Prudencia to the forest! "Finally there is no escape, we must pass the door.
"Yes, yes," assented Prudencia, delightedly. "My Reinaldo! my Reinaldo!" We congratulated them severally and collectively, and, when the ceremony was over, Reinaldo cried, with even more enthusiasm than he had yet shown, "My mother, for the love of Mary give me something to eat, tamales, salad, chicken, dulces. Don Juan and I are as empty as hides."
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