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'He is driving, so Estella is with him. 'Estella is of course jealous. The priest looked at her with a slow wise smile and said nothing. 'She began Julia, and then closed her lips true to that esprit de sexe which has ruled through all the ages. Then Julia Barenna gave a sharp sigh as her mind reverted from Estella's affairs to her own.
In the little bamboo grove he found the elder lady lying back in her chair, which creaked ominously, and asking in a faint voice whether he were Don Carlos. 'No, answered Estella, with a momentary twinkle in her grave, dark eyes; 'this is Mr. Conyngham my aunt, Senora Barenna, and my cousin Julia. The ladies bowed.
She was endowed with a magnificent imagination without much wisdom to hold it in check, and at times persuaded herself that she was in the midst, and perhaps the leader, of a dangerous whirl of political events. 'I will, my dear Inez; I will. And we will take a little maraschino, to collect ourselves, eh? And his manner quite indicated that it was he and not Madame Barenna who was upset.
'All who know me? 'Yes, she continued; 'Father Concha, Senora Barenna, my father, and others at Ronda. 'Ah! And what leads them to mistrust me? 'Your own actions, replied Estella. And Conyngham was too simple-minded, too inexperienced in such matters, to understand the ring of anxiety in her voice.
'And what do you conceive that to be, my dear Alcalde? inquired the General. 'To place the Senorita Barenna under arrest unless she will hand to me the letter she has in her possession. Julia looked at him with a smile.
At this moment a horseman clattered past, coming from Ronda and hastening in the direction of Bobadilla or perhaps to the Casa Barenna. He wore his flat-brimmed hat well forward over the eyes, and kept his gaze fixed upon the road in front.
In the old Moorish palace in Ronda, General Vincente, summoned to a great council of war at Madrid, was making curt military preparations for his journey and the conveyance of his household to the capital. Senora Barenna was for the moment forgetful of her nerves in the excitement of despatching servants in advance to Toledo, where she owned a summer residence.
The Alcalde, now thoroughly aroused, protested his inability to neglect a particle of his duty at this troubled period of Spain's history, and announced his intention of placing Julia Barenna under surveillance until she handed him the letter she had received from Conyngham.
'One cannot talk idly here. Concha held back the great leathern portiere, and the Englishman passed out. 'This is a queer country, and you are a queer people, he said presently. 'When I was at Ronda I met a certain number of persons I can count them on my fingers. General Vincente, his daughter, Senora Barenna, Senorita Barenna, the Englishman Conyngham, yourself, Senor Concha.
That distance seemed now to exist between him and all women. It had come suddenly, and one glance of Estella's eyes had called it into existence. 'Yes, Senora Barenna was saying, 'Father Concha is very angry with the English. What a terrible man! You do not know him, Senor Conyngham? 'I think I have met him, senora. 'Ah, but you have never seen him angry. You have never confessed to him!
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