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Updated: May 24, 2025
Lawrence turned as if he had received an electric shock. He had been so absorbed in the scene we have just described, that he had not looked at the girl who leaned on the colonel's other arm. He now turned and beheld not the Indian girl of his travels, but a fair-skinned, dark-eyed senhorina.
The thin line of softest down which accentuates the ripe lips of the senhorina of some seventeen summers becomes an unattractive incident in the broad countenance of the stout lady of advancing years; and when, as sometimes happens, the hirsute appendages take the form of a thin, straggling beard, with a tooth-brush moustache, it can only be described as an unmitigated horror.
The voice was in very truth that of Manuela, though the countenance was that of a Spanish senhorina! "Because time is precious. We have received news which calls for speedy action, and I must be in close attendance on your father, Manuela.
"Indeed!" exclaimed the maiden in surprise. "I had thought Senhor Armstrong objected to fighting." Pedro laughed. "So he does, senhorina; but when the rescue of captive women and children is in the case, he holds fighting to be a duty, as you are aware. But I must go now," continued Pedro, becoming grave and earnest as he took the girl's hand.
She lef' de oders far behind, an' looked like nuffin so much as dat poor little blear-eyed monkey you shot de oder day, what Senhorina Manuela say was so nice to eat. What! you un'erstan' Ingliss?" added the negro, looking at the Indian girl, who had given vent to a half-suppressed giggle. "Yes leetil," replied Manuela, without attempting further to restrain her mirth.
By way of changing a subject that appeared to be almost too much for him, he turned abruptly to the Indian girl; and said, in Spanish quite as bad as that of Lawrence "But where were you, senhorina, all the time?" "Ay, Manuela, let's hear how it was that you escaped," said Pedro quickly, in Indian. "I escaped through the mercy of God," replied the girl, in a low voice.
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