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As Las Palmas had been the elder Austin's wedding-gift to his son, so Alaire's dowry from her father had been La Feria, a grant of lands across the Rio Grande beyond the twenty-league belt by which Mexico fatuously strives to guard her border. And to Las Palmas had come the bride and groom to live, to love, and to rear their children.
They will not be expecting us and, after their march here and their day's fighting, they will sleep soundly." "I should like nothing better, Admiral; but in truth, I doubt whether our horses could carry us. They have already made a twenty-league journey." "We have at least two hundred horses here, Admiral," Francois said.
Away I went to my old friend Chaubert, in the Rue Miromesnil, and there I got his hussar uniform, which fitted me very well. He and Lisette and I supped together in his rooms, and all my dangers were forgotten. In the morning I found Violette ready for another twenty-league stretch.
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