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The only furniture contained in the room was a bed and some benches, upon which the company seated themselves when not engaged in dancing. Among the senoritas assembled were two daughters of an American named Chapman, who has been a resident of the country for many years. They were fair-skinned, and might be called handsome. An elder and married sister was also present.
Did I not understand the ways of the señoritas among his people? that they always answered by a wave of the handkerchief, or the mantilla? Ave Maria, Tomas! Such stupidity! Why, to be sure, they could talk all day with their eyes. A setting sun finally ended his confidences, and the watering was soon finished, for Enrique lowered the bucket in a gallop.
For the bronchos had run away, upset the buggy, and had only been stopped by a brave Americano of an ox-team, whose lasso was even now around their necks, to prove it, and who had been dragged a matter of a hundred varas, like a calf, at their heels. The senoritas, ah! had he not already said they were safe, by the mercy of Jesus! picked up by the coach, and would be here at this moment."
She chose the hours between four and six, when wheel traffic was suspended in the Calle Florida and throughout the shopping-district, the narrow streets of which are congested to the point of suffocation at other times. As she swung down the street they turned to gaze after her these Argentines. The fat senoras turned, and the smartly costumed, sallow senoritas, and the men all of them.
"That I might go wiz you but no, it is impossible!" the lace seller sighed. "Tell us your story perhaps we can help you," suggested Cora. "I will make for you as little weariness as I can, Senoritas; and, believe me, I am truly grateful to you," she said.
"What cause did he give for turning back?" "He said war was about to break out between the republics; I heard that much, but I was one of the firemen and could not hear all; he said afterward that he discovered something ahead which caused him to turn back in haste." "What was it?" "Nothing, for there was nothing to see." "He planned it from the first to deceive the Señoritas."
The presidencia, or town hall, was filled with the notabilities, and Mr. Forbes was presented with an address by one of the señoritas. About two miles beyond Tayug lies San Francisco, the initial point of our real mounted journey. The people along this part of the road had simply outdone themselves in the matter of arches, there being one at every hundred yards almost.
As for me, I will now go into the city, for there will be much to see and to hear that may be important to us. Senoritas, for all your desires, I am at your service." When Ortiz was gone, Isabel had a little fret of disappointment. Luis might have found some messenger to bring her a word of his love and life. What was love worth that did not annihilate impossibilities!
He sent me an amused glance. "Perhaps Leese thought delay dangerous," I suggested, "for Señorita María Rosalia was one of the belles of the new military outpost at Sonomá and more than one gaily clad caballero was suing for her hand." "No wonder the American pushed the matter," laughed my companion. "Did many Boston men marry Spanish Señoritas?" "Nearly all who came to the Coast," I answered.
For days some of the señoras and señoritas have worn a mask of a white clayey mixture to give them an ephemeral whiteness for this occasion. Those who could procure nothing else have worn a pasty vizard kneaded of common clay, to effect in some degree a like result by protecting their faces from the sun and wind.
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