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Updated: July 6, 2025
She laughed as she took her reboso from the table, saying that she was out of patience, and that I must take the walk with her as punishment. I, of course said nothing of my morning visit, or what I had witnessed, but it troubled me greatly all the afternoon.
Chonita, in a white gown, a pale-green reboso about her shoulders, her arms crossed, her head thoughtfully bent forward, walked slowly up and down before him. "Holy God!" cried the old man, pounding the floor with his stick. "That they have dared to arrest my son! the son of Guillermo Iturbi y Moncada! That Alvarado, my friend and thy host, should have permitted it!"
Every man but Estenega and Alvarado was as gay of color as the wild flowers had been, and the girls, as they cantered, looked like full-blown roses. Chonita wore a dark-blue gown and reboso of thin silk, which became her fairness marvelously well. "Doña Chonita, light of my eyes," said Don Juan, "thou art not wont to be so quiet when I am by thee." "Thou usually hast enough to say for two."
Only the quick rustle of a skirt, or a hurried view of a reboso, as its wearer flashed for an instant before some window or half-open door, told of their presence. The greater portion of his table-service was solid silver, and at his hospitable board there were rarely any vacant chairs.
Their tresses hang in luxuriant plaits down their backs: and in all the little accessories of dress, such as ear-rings, necklaces, etc., the costume is very rich. Its distinguishing, feature, however, is the reboso, a sort of scarf, generally made of cotton, which answers to the mantilla of Old Spain.
As I ascended the second hill, I saw, as I looked behind me, a female figure slowly walking down to the road from the grove of figs. I knew at once who it was from the odd manner of wearing her reboso, and by the lameness of her gait; it was Madre Moreno, the witch.
Chonita wore a white silk gown, I remember flowered with blue, large blue lilies. The reboso matched the gown. As soon as we arrived we were a little late she was surrounded by caballeros who hardly knew whether to like her or not, but who adhered to the knowledge that she was Chonita Iturbi y Moncada, the most famous beauty of the South.
Few others were abroad; an occasional Mexican woman in her black skirt and tight-drawn reboso, a peon or two slouching gracefully by with the inevitable brown cigarette, and a solitary horseman who was coming down the street.
This they wear asleep or awake, in the house or abroad. The dress of the lower classes of women is a simple petticoat, with arms and shoulders bare, except what may chance to be covered by the reboso.
The sun had turned to the west in its majestic course and Tharon, the noon work over, drew up the spindle-legged stool and sat down to play to herself and Anita. The old woman, half Mexic, half Indian, drowsed in a low chair by the eastern window, her toil-hard hands clasped in her lap, a black reboso over her head, though the day was warm as summer.
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