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They will run here from every Mission and hacienda, and from every hill and mountain, like little ones to their good father; and we will drive the priests out of the country, and make the hidalgos, the caballeros, the soft silk-dressed donas our friends or our slaves as they wish. California belongs to us. The Great Spirit put us here, not the white man.
They attended one of the lectures in the Normal School building, and laughed furtively in their muffs at "Madam President" of the Club, a portly, silk-dressed dame, and at the ill-fitting black coat of the university professor who lectured. They came away before the reception. "Dowds!" Bessie summed up succinctly. "Rather crude," Isabelle agreed tolerantly.
"Huh! Talk's cheap. Nobody sent silk-dressed young ones to the Lane to be took care of, Glory Beck. I don't care, though. Keep her, if ye want to," returned the offended questioner. "Sure I shall," laughed Glory, gaily. "But needn't get mad, Nancy Smith. Maybe you can get one, too. She's my 'Guardian Angel' an' her name's 'Bonny'; she said so.
She had not come to ask a favor of this more fortunate woman, but the thought flashed through her mind suppose she had? She looked down at the little silk-dressed figure, the blinking eyes, the veiny little hand, and the small mouth, that, after sixty years, was composed of nothing but conservative and close-shut lines.
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