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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Sainted Mary, but thou art more slow than a gentleman that walks!" cried Mariquita, an impatient-looking girl. "Read us the letter. La Tulita is the prettiest girl in Monterey now that the Señorita Ysabel Herrera lies beneath the rocks, and Benicia Ortega has died of her childing. But she is a flirt that Tulita!
A small white mustache grew above his mouth; about his chin, from ear to ear, was a short stubby beard, whiter by contrast with his copper-coloured skin. He looked much like an intellectual bear. And Ysabel? In truth, she had reason for her pride. Her black hair, unblemished by gloss or tinge of blue, fell waving to her feet.
Pictures of his departure began to shine and melt in his drifting fancy. He saw himself explaining to Felipe that now his presence was wanted elsewhere; that there would come a successor to take care of Santa Ysabel a younger man, more useful, and able to visit sick people at a distance. "For I am old now. I should not be long here in any case."
Letters from the Primate assumed that the proposal should be accepted; it was an opportunity of taking home the Bauro and Grera boys; moreover there was a quarrel between English and natives to be enquired into at Ysabel Island, where the Bishop could be useful as interpreter; and, as he could leave his two friends to carry on the school at Mota, he went on board, and very good it was for him, in the depressed state of health brought on by rude bed and board, to be the guest on board a Queen's ship and under good medical care.
The guest was twenty-five, the host sixty. "And have you been in America long?" inquired Gaston. "Twenty years." "And at Santa Ysabel how long?" "Twenty years." "I should have thought," said Gaston, looking lightly at the empty mountains, "that now and again you might have wished to travel." "Were I your age," murmured Padre Ignazio, "it might be so."
There has been much to make me hopeful, and something to disappoint me, since I last wrote. The disappointment is not here mentioned, unless it was the missing some of the Ysabel scholars, and bringing away only three; but this mattered the less, as the Banks Island party, which, as forming a nucleus, was far more important, was now considerable.
In May, the expedition left Santa Ysabel, and after sighting many more islands of the group, they cast anchor off the coast of a large island which Gallego named Guadalcanal, after his own native place near Seville. On the 19th and 22nd, Sarmiento and Mendana, accompanied by Ortega, made excursions into the interior, ascending a high mountain and enjoying a magnificent panorama.
It will be a case, I imagine, of Mauki getting Bunster, or Bunster getting Mauki, and good riddance in either event." If one leaves Meringe Lagoon, on Ysabel, and steers a course due north, magnetic, at the end of one hundred and fifty miles he will lift the pounded coral beaches of Lord Howe above the sea.
She lifted her head when he had finished, her throat throbbing, her nostrils twitching. "Thou hast done that for me?" "Ay, Ysabel!" "Thou hast murdered thy immortal soul for me?" "Ysabel!" "Thou lovest me like that! O God, in what likeness hast thou made me? In whatsoever image it may have been, I thank Thee and repudiate Thee!"
But De la Vega was not discouraged. The music finished, and Ysabel was at once surrounded by a determined retinue. This intruding Southerner was welcome to the honours of the race-field, but the Star of Monterey was not for him. He smiled as he saw the menace of their eyes. "I would have her," he thought, "if they were a regiment of Castros which they are not."
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