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"I was examining the glass," she explained, "to see if it was fit for the señorita to use. These common mirrors, you understand, they draw the countenance this way, that way, " she expressed her meaning in vivid pantomime, "one thinks one's visage of caoutchouc. But this is passable; I assure you, señorita, passable." "Well, I declare!" said Marm Prudence.
You know how many things we see which we must not see, and of late I have had many chances to view such things on the gunboat. I shall say to the General that you were as prompt and obedient as you always are to do his bidding, and that he has no better officer in his army than you." "And you shall not be forgotten, Martella; I will order the horse saddled for the Señorita."
Those men came unarmed, and, as it were, under Castro's protection, and absolutely whimpered with regrets before Father Antonio. "Would his reverence kindly intercede with the most noble senorita?..." "Silence! Dare not pronounce her name!" thundered the good priest, snatching away his hand, which they attempted to grab and kiss.
Blanch started, the attack was so sudden, her face coloring in spite of her endeavor to conceal her confusion. "Yes, Señorita, you love him." "How do you know I love him?" laughed Blanch lightly in turn, by this time thoroughly mistress of herself. "Why, you have only met me for the first time!" "How do I know? Because I am a woman. I saw you as you spoke to him.
If she had been on the ground, she would have stamped her foot. As it was, she shook an adorably tiny fist at Jack, and blinked her long lashes upon the tears of real, sincere anger that stood in her black eyes, and gritted her teeth at him; for the señorita had a temper quite as hot as Jack's, when it was roused, and all her life she had been given her own way in everything.
Besides, had she not had her say unburdened her soul of many things which she had long been dying to give utterance to? All things considered she had scored. "Á Dios, Señorita," she added sarcastically, her black eyes gleaming with malicious satisfaction as with mock courtesy she bowed and turned, leaving Chiquita silent and motionless, her eyes cast on the ground and lost in thought.
"I am going away, Margarita, as soon as I feel a little stronger. I am going to a convent; but the Senora does not know. You will not tell?" "No, Senorita!" whispered Margarita, thinking in her heart, "Yes, she is going away, but it will be with the angels." "No, Senorita, I will not tell. I will do anything you want me to." "Thanks, Margarita mia," replied Ramona.
"No, you have not, Billy Whiskers, and I should like to know right away." "Well, I will tell you, Senorita Burroetta, and you need not be so cross about it either. She is my wife and a sweeter, dearer little wife no goat ever had before!" Betty stopped stock still in the road and glared at Billy for a second, before she could speak from astonishment.
"Look here, upon this picture, and on this": first, the gay little senorita, holding daintily in her tapering fingers a cigarette, which she occasionally raises to her "ripe red lips", afterwards languidly following with her lustrous black eyes the blue wreaths of smoke as they float above her head and vanish in the air; next, the withered crone, with silver hair, wrinkled skin, and no trace of her early beauty, sitting in the chimney corner, and still smoking, though now it is a clay pipe, to the amazement and disgust of the villagers.
Señorita Diane was exceedingly loquacious: her little tongue wove in and out of the new idiom with surprising facility, forever wagging in a low, sweet babble of nothings. Adelle, as has been sufficiently indicated, absorbed passively the small and the large facts of life. Diane was like a twittering bird on a tiny twig that shook with the vehemence of her expression.
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