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Updated: July 6, 2025
After a while came the cue for adopting the pose of rest, and then the two kneeling figures senorita and poblana dropped towards each other, so that their arms touched. A moment later and two hands became uncovered one a little brown-skinned paw from under the reboso the other, a delicate arrangement of white and jewelled fingers, from the manta.
"Mamacita, good night," and Benicia, who had fluttered into the house and found a reboso, kissed her mother, waved her hand to Brotherton, and stepped from the corridor to the street. "Come here, señorita!" cried her mother. "No walk to-night, for I have not the wish to walk myself." "But I go with my husband, mamma." "Oh, no more of that joke without sense!
Her short red satin skirt, a gift of her happy lady's, was the finest ever worn by exultant nurse. About her stringy old throat was a gold chain, bright red roses were woven in her black reboso. I saw her admire Chonita's stately figure with scornful reserve of the colorless gown. We were followed in a moment by the governor, adjusting his collar and smoothing his hair.
Over her coarse smock and gown she wore a black cotton reboso. In her arms she held an infant, muffled in a white lace mantilla. Doña Eustaquia came in and bent over the baby, her strong face alight with joy. "Didst thou ever nurse so beautiful a baby?" she demanded. The old woman grunted; she had heard that question before. "See how pink and smooth it is not red and wrinkled like other babies!
The witch bent her head and looking into my face from under her overhanging reboso, raised her finger and shook it before me saying as she did so, "Thou art a learned señorito, Carlos Sotos, but although Ambrosia Moreno hath never been in the college, she knows more of the little flowers and bright leaves of this plant thou speakest of than all the Jesuits or thy people shall ever learn.
On Saturday night Chonita stole from her guests, donned a black gown and reboso, and, attended by two Indian servants, went up to the Mission to confession. As she left the church a half-hour later, and came down the steps, Estenega rose from a bench beneath the arches of the corridor and joined her. "How did you know that I came?" she asked; and it was not the stars that lit her face.
Meanwhile Rosita had drawn out her loom, and, kneeling down in front of it, went on with her work as if no stranger were present. "Oh, indeed!" exclaimed the officer, feigning interest in the process, "how very ingenious! I have often wished to see this! a reboso it is? Upon my word! and that is how they are woven? Can you finish one in a day, Senorita?" "Si, Senor," was the curt reply.
Doña Pomposa sat forward on the high seat, her feet dangling just above the floor, her hands crossed as usual over her stomach, a sudden twirl of thumbs punctuating her remarks. She wore a loose black gown trimmed with ruffles, and a black reboso about her head. Aunt Anastacia was attired in a like manner, but clutched the side of the wagon with one hand and an American sunshade with the other.
As she approached Russell he took a rose from his coat and threw it at her. She caught it, thrust it carelessly in one of her thick braids, and the next moment he was at her side again. Doña Eustaquia slipped from the crowd and out of the house. Drawing a reboso about her head she walked swiftly down the street and across the plaza.
The women dropped their heads and fumbled at the linen in the water. La Tulita was approaching. She came across the meadow with all her old swinging grace, the blue gown waving about her like the leaves of a California lily when the wind rustled the forest. But the reboso framed a face thin and pale, and the sparkle was gone from her eyes.
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