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Updated: June 8, 2025
DOÑA MATILDE. Es prudencia por lo menos para evitar el que la vecina de enfrente fisgonee lo que va a pasar en este cuarto. BRUNO. ¡Ay! DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Qué es eso? BRUNO. No es cosa, un chichón que debo a la vecina de enfrente. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Y todavía no has abierto la reja! BRUNO. ¿Para qué? ¿Si se ha de ir usted al cabo, no vale más el que se salga usted por la puerta?
As she entered the sala, Don Guillermo, Reinaldo, and Prudencia literally flung themselves upon her; and she stood like a rock, and supported them. She had loved her mother, but it had always been her lot to prop other people; she never had had a chance to lean.
While she is serving him, I find time to slip with the agility of the serpent into the passage, and turn the handle of the bedroom door. 'Spotted fever! I cry through the crack; and am back at my post before the colonel could see round Antonia's broad back. Good! he drinks his coffee. He devours your cakes, my Prudencia, keeping his eye on me all the time, and plying me with questions.
A thousand sons to Cuba like him!" Donna Prudencia was sitting apart on a stone by the roadside. Rita went up to her, took her hand, and kissed her cheek. The Yankee woman looked kindly at her and nodded comprehension, but did not speak. Rita stood silent for a few minutes, timidly stroking the brown cheek and white hair. Her cousin Margaret came into her mind.
She also invited Prudencia to take what she pleased from her wardrobe; and Prudencia, who was nothing if not practical, helped herself to three gowns which had been made for Chonita at great expense in the city of Mexico, four shawls of Chinese crêpe, a roll of pineapple silk, and an American hat.
Poor Don Guillermo sank in a heap as if some one had felled him, Reinaldo wept loudly, and Prudencia was not to be consoled. Chonita was away on her horse when it happened, galloping over the hills. Servants were sent for her immediately, and met her when she was within an hour or two of home.
"Ay, thou canst appreciate the art of speech. Hast thou ever known any one who could converse with lighter ease than I and thy brother?" "I never have heard any one use more words." "Ay! they roll from my tongue and from Reinaldo's like wheels downhill." She turned to Adan: "They will be happy, you think, Reinaldo and Prudencia?" "Ay!" "What a beautiful wedding, no?" "Ay!"
"Oh, thou spoilt baby! Thou wilt have thy way " At this moment Prudencia appeared. Nothing whatever could be seen of her small person but her feet; she looked like an exploded bale of goods. "What! what!" gasped Don Guillermo. "Thou little rat! Thou wouldst make a Christmas doll of thyself with satin that is too heavy for thy grandmother, and eke out thy dumpy inches with a train?
"Thou must wear long, long trains now, my Prudencia, and be as stately as Chonita." "Ay!" exclaimed Prudencia. Did not every gown already made have a train longer than herself? "Thou needst never wear a mended stocking with all these to last thee for years," said another: never had silk stockings been brought to the Californias in sufficient plenty for the dancing feet of its daughters.
But it grieves me to think that even hospitality could make thee false." When they ascended the steps, not a woman was to be seen; all had followed Prudencia to her chamber to see the donas of the groom, which had arrived that day from Mexico.
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