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His clear-cut and healthy face, his bright blue eyes and white teeth, the exceeding sweetness of his face and expression are with me now as I write. When it was over and we had parted from him and were flying back to Valoro and modernism, I turned to Don Juan and spoke my thoughts. "And where," I asked, "can the Order of Trappists have gained such a wonderful recruit from?"
"Certainly," I answered, "I told you both. I know you never keep secrets from one another." "Well, she knows," he proceeded, "therefore, that you have made up your mind to go to Valoro with that packet the old lady gave you." "Well?" Jack brought his hand down with a smack on my knee. "Let us come too, old chap," he cried "both of us Ethel and I." The idea to me was both pleasant and astonishing.
"And do you think he will give you to me, darling?" I asked one beautiful night, when we were sitting out a waltz at a ball at the house of a grandee at Valoro. "Do you think he will give you to an Englishman?" "Considering that he gave his sister away to an Englishman I don't see how he can refuse me to you, dearest," she answered. "At any rate I think I can persuade him."
The old man's face, which had been smiling, turned very grave; he shook his head and sighed. "Ah! I wish I could tell you!" That was his answer. We left Valoro a few days after the great festival of the New Year, which came as a fitting finale to all our gaiety. Christmas had been a quiet, sedate feast in the nature of a Sunday.
Nivel and I began to look askance at banquets, Don Juan came to me one day and took me aside into his garden. I purposely led him away from the direction of the reptile houses of which I had a holy horror, and we sauntered down a shady avenue of palms. "There is one place of interest near Valoro, Mr. Anstruther," he said, "which I should much like to show you and Lord St.
I remembered seeing the bicycles being put into the train at Monte Video, and the magazine rifles of course were in the guard's van, and ought to have been used when the robbers attacked us, but they came too suddenly and there was no time to get them. From that time forward things went easily enough; steam was soon up, and we were away again to Valoro within half an hour.
However, the morning soon came when we were to bid adieu to it all, and in the hurry and scurry of it and the race down to the station in the motor for we were late, Ethel's maid having forgotten an important hat perhaps we forgot all our peaceful happiness in our feverish speculations on our voyage across the Atlantic to that distant South American Republic, Aquazilia, and its mountain capital, Valoro.
I hope I don't make a mistake in calling them monks if I do, I ask their pardon. I certainly understood them to say they were monks. Be that as it may. I did not disgrace Dolores when I went with her to the great cathedral in Valoro. But our time there was by no means entirely spent in going to church.
"Had I had the prudence of an honest milkmaid who guards her honour as by instinct, I might have reigned this day at Valoro, instead of being the victim of a villain who, creeping into my heart like the serpent into Eden, destroyed it with the fire of burning love, and left me only ashes."
I know my face lighted up with pleasure. I could not control it. "We shall spend Christmas with you," I said cheerfully at last, "at any rate, and Christmas in Valoro will be a great novelty both to my cousins and myself, I have no doubt." "Christmas and the New Year are the gayest times with us of the whole twelve months," he answered, "and you will be able to be present at them both."
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