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Updated: June 10, 2025
Alaire tried to banish such ideas, but even in her own room she was not permitted entirely to forget, for Dolores echoed the teniente's sentiments. In marked contrast to José Sanchez's high and confident spirits was the housekeeper's conviction of dire calamity.
He heard me without interruption, keeping, however, one eye on the alguazil, and handling his cane nervously. By the time I had finished, the cane fairly quivered; and the delinquent himself, who had scarcely flinched under the Teniente's knife, was now uneasily stealing away towards the door.
But, beyond a slight wincing downwards, and a partial contraction of his eyes and lips, the object of the Teniente's wrath made no movement, nor uttered a word of expostulation. He evidently expected to lose his ears, and probably was surprised at nothing except the pause in the operation.
To which our alguazil made no reply, but looked at us vacantly. "Do you hear? we must have some sacate or some maize for the animals." Still no reply, only the same vacuous look, now more stolid, if possible, than before. I had observed that the Teniente's wrath was rising, and that an explosion was imminent.
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