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Updated: July 5, 2025
You see two very old women talking eagerly in the street, each in a cloak whose every square inch is a patch, and every patch a different shade, and each alternate word you hear seems to be Senhora. Among laboring men, the most available medium of courtesy is the little paper cigar; it contains about four whiffs, and is smoked by about that number of separate persons.
A criado, a nondescript man-servant attached to the household, stooped over Iris and whispered something. She gathered that she was wanted in the patèo, or court-yard, which, owing to the construction of the house, stood on one side instead of in front, where the lawn usurped its usual position. "Who is it?" she asked. The voice sank even lower. "Colonel San Benavides, Senhora."
Even before the answer was forthcoming she guessed the truth. The Senhora Ingleza, of course. Those fine eyes of hers flashed dangerously. "What, then? Does this woman come here and take all?" she cried. "Ah, pequinina, do not be angry," said Maria. "Who save the good God could tell that you would come from Paris to-day? And the Senhora Ingleza will be glad to give place to you.
"I have been fortunate in finding you alone, Senhora," said I, as I seated myself by her side, "for I am the bearer of a letter to you. How far it may interest you, I know not, but to the writer's feelings I am bound to testify." "A letter to me? You jest, surely?" "That I am in earnest, this will show," said I, producing the packet.
When the door was shut on Maria, who had concealed the doll under her cloak, she hid herself under the couch, keeping fast hold of the string which was fastened to its head. 'Senhora Maria, I hope you are well, said the king when he entered the room. The doll nodded.
"Be not afraid, senhora I am a friend," he said with quiet confidence, and the fact that he addressed her so courteously was a wondrously soothing thing in itself. But he raised a fresh wave of dread in her soul when he peered into the cabin and spoke words she did not understand. "I think you are here, mademoiselle," he said in French. "I am come to share your retreat for a little while.
It rests on the Corinthian capital of a very bulbous baluster, is square, and has on each side four beautiful little Corinthian columns, fluted and surrounded with large acanthus leaves at the bottom. Almost exactly like it, but round and with balusters instead of columns, is the pulpit in the church of Nossa Senhora dos Olivaes at Thomar.
"'Good-by, Senhora, said I. 'Have you nothing to tell me ere we part? "'Not that I remember, said she, carelessly. 'I hope you'll have good weather. "'There is a storm threatening, said I, gloomily. "'Well, a soldier cares little for a wet jacket. "'Adieu! said I, sharply, darting at her a look that spoke my meaning.
The visitors, who had come from the Villa de Conde, five miles through the forest, were invited to rest. Raimundo then took the image of St. Thome from one of the party, and placed it by the side of Nossa Senhora in his own oratorio, a little decorated box in which every family keeps its household gods, finally lighting a couple of wax candles before it.
"Senhora Inez " no "Ma chère Mademoiselle Inez " confound it, that's too intimate; well, here goes: "Monsieur O'Malley presente ses respects " that will never do; and then, after twenty other abortive attempts, I began thoughtlessly sketching heads upon the paper, and scribbling with wonderful facility in fifty different ways: "Ma charmante amie Ma plus chère Inez," etc., and in this most useful and profitable occupation did I pass another half-hour.
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