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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Good morning, Señora Tassara," said Ned, as he bowed and tried to walk backward toward the outer door. "Good morning, Señorita Tassara. You would feel very badly this morning if you had been drowned last night." The last thing he heard, as he reached the piazza, was a ringing peal of laughter from the señora, but he believed that he had answered politely.
Ned did not so much as have time to hurrah again before Señora Tassara came forward to say to him: "That is not all, Señor Carfora. For the sake of my husband's health, and for other reasons, he and I and Felicia and Señora Paez are intending to spend our next winter in the United States. We have accepted your father's invitation to be passengers with you. What do you think of that?"
Señora Tassara was as stately as ever, but it was apparent that she had taken a liking to her young American guest, whether it was on account of his deep interest in her old stories, or otherwise.
Before him stood the stately Señora Tassara, and clinging to her was the very pretty Señorita Felicia, both of them staring, open-eyed, at the change in his uniform. The señorita was of about fourteen, somewhat pale, with large, brilliant black eyes, and she was a very frank, truthful girl, for she exclaimed: "Oh, mother, do look at him! But it does not make a Mexican of him.
He was gazing at the pale face of a man in uniform and on crutches, who came slowly forward between a woman and a young girl, with a mournful smile upon his face. "Colonel Tassara!" exclaimed Ned. "I knew you were wounded, but are you not getting well?" "Señor Carfora!" quickly interrupted Señorita Felicia. "He was hit in the leg by a bullet at Angostura.
M. Tassara, the Spanish Minister, and Baron Von Geroldt, the Prussian Minister, were accompanied by their wives, as was young M. De Bodisco, who represented Russia as Chargè d'Affaires.
The Americans will hold the Texan border with a strong hand, but if Paredes does not promptly come to terms with them, we shall see a fleet and army at Vera Cruz before long. This is the weak point of our unhappy republic." "I think not," replied Tassara, gloomily. "I wish it were a solid nation, as strong as the castle out yonder.
I shall be there then, with five hundred lancers, to uphold the new government which will take the place of the bloody dictatorship of Paredes, unless the new affair is to be Santa Anna. In any event, I shall be able to help you, and I will." "You are a gloomy prophet," responded Tassara, "but you are an old student of military operations.
It appeared, therefore, as if no danger was expected to meet them from the opposite direction, and that Señora Tassara and her daughter were fairly well protected from any peril which might come after them along the road from Vera Cruz.
It is of the oldest Seville workmanship, and there are not many such remaining in all the world. It is an heirloom." "Señor Carfora," at that moment interrupted Colonel Tassara, "I will show you something else that is worth more than any kind of silver ware. Take a good look at this!"
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