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Alessandro halted so suddenly that Baba, whose nose was nearly on his shoulder, came to so sharp a stop that Ramona uttered a cry. She thought he had lost his footing. Alessandro looked at her in dismay. To dismount on that perilous trail was impossible; moreover, to walk there would take more nerve than to ride. Yet she looked as if she could not much longer keep her seat.
She would take her to Los Angeles and to Monterey; would show her a little more of the world; and it was by no means unlikely that there might thus come about for her a satisfactory and honorable marriage. Felipe should see that she was not disposed to deal unfairly by Ramona in any way, if Ramona herself would behave properly.
Yes, the women said, he was a bad man; they all knew it. Of this Ramona said no word to Alessandro. She dared not; she believed he would kill Jake. When the furious Jake confided to his friend Merrill his repulse, and the indignity accompanying it, Merrill only laughed at him, and said: "I could have told you better than to try that woman. She's married, fast enough.
"There is something caught round his foot, Alessandro," said Ramona. "It keeps moving." Alessandro jumped off his horse, and kneeling down, exclaimed, "It's a stake, and the lariat fastened to it. Holy Virgin! what " The rest of his ejaculation was inaudible. The next Ramona knew, he had run swiftly on, a rod or two.
"Ah! did I frighten the Senorita? Forgive. I have been waiting here a long time to speak to her. I wished to say " Suddenly Alessandro discovered that he did not know what he wished to say. As suddenly, Ramona discovered that she knew all he wished to say. But she spoke not, only looked at him searchingly.
She would not spoil his night's rest, she thought, by talking of disagreeable things. Moreover, she was not clear in her own mind what she wished to have done about Alessandro. If Ramona were to be sent away to the nuns, which was the only thing the Senora could think of as yet, there would be no reason for discharging Alessandro.
The three who were watching and wondering looked covertly into each other's faces, each longing to know what the others thought. Ramona was wan and haggard. She had scarcely slept. The idea had taken possession of her that Alessandro was dead.
Perry Robinson, the parents of these girls," and she nodded toward the twins. "Is it possible!" exclaimed the lieutenant. "This is indeed a coincidence." "Have you sighted the Ramona?" asked Cora. "No, Miss, and I wish we would soon," spoke the lieutenant. "We're going to have a storm, if I'm any judge, and our cutter isn't any too sea-worthy.
Perjuries, assassinations, purchase in open markets of judges drawing such small pittances that they were in the auction mart for highest bid, forged documents, incendiary fires to destroy true titles these were the least and most decent of the crimes of this era. "Ramona" tells what happened to Indian titles in California.
His passionate heart, ever secretly brooding on the wrongs he had borne, the hopeless outlook for his people in the future, and most of all on the probable destitution and suffering in store for Ramona, consumed itself as by hidden fires. Speech, complaint, active antagonism, might have saved him; but all these were foreign to his self-contained, reticent, repressed nature.
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