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Updated: June 16, 2025
So many have, on the contrary, the misfortune to be always absent when they are required, and the world soon learns to progress without them. 'That man that Larralde is in Ronda, said Senora Barenna, bursting in on the General's solitude. Vincente smiled, and nevertheless exchanged a quick glance with Concha, who confirmed the news by a movement of his shaggy eyebrows.
'Julia, said Senora Barenna to Concha, 'is no longer a companion to me. She does not even attempt to understand my sensitive organisation. She is a mere statue, and thinks of nothing but politics. 'For her, Madame, as for all women, there would be no politics if there were no politicians, the priest replied. This afternoon Julia was more restless than ever.
But Julia Barenna wittingly, or in all innocence, appealed to that sense of chivalry which is essentially the quality of lonely men who have never had sisters, and Conyngham was ready to help Julia where he would have refused his assistance to a man, however hard pressed.
It was Concepcion Vara who came into the room, coatless, his face grey with dust, adding a startling and picturesque incongruity to the scene. 'Pardon, Excellency, he said, with that easy grasp of the situation which always made an utterly unabashed smuggler of him, 'but there is one in the house whom I think his Excellency should speak with. 'Ah! 'The Senorita Barenna.
He looked up into the Englishman's face, which was burnt brown by service under a merciless sun. Conyngham looked lean and strong, but his eyes had no rest in them. This was not a man who had all he wanted. 'Are you come to Ronda, or are you passing through? asked the priest. 'To Ronda. As I passed the Casa Barenna I made inquiries. The ladies are in the town, it appears.
Then the Alcalde turned to Conyngham. 'It will give me the greatest pleasure, he said, 'to learn that I have been mistaken. I have only to ask this gentleman's confirmation of what the senorita has said. It is true, senor, that you surreptitiously handed to the Senorita Barenna a letter expressing your love?
She had just made this remark for perhaps the sixth time one evening when the door of the patio where she and Julia sat was thrown open, and Larralde the person indirectly referred to came towards the ladies. He was not afraid of Madame Barenna, and his tired face lightened visibly at the sight of Julia. Concha was right. According to his lights Larralde loved Julia.
'Father Concha says that Spanish politics are the same as those of any other country each man for himself, said Julia with a bitter laugh. 'And he is, no doubt, right. 'Do you really think so? asked Julia Barenna, with more earnestness than the question would seem to require; 'are there not true patriots who sacrifice all not only their friends, but themselves to the cause of their country?
Senora Barenna treated the flatterer to what the French call a fin sourire, and wondered how long Julia would stay away. This man would pay her a compliment in another moment. 'I merely called on the excuse of a common friendship, to ask if you can tell me the whereabouts of General Vincente, said Sir John, stating his business in haste and when the opportunity presented itself.
The greatest names are those that men have made for themselves. Conyngham replaced the two letters in his pocket and almost immediately asked: 'Do you know anyone called Barenna in Ronda, senorita? thereby proving that General Espartero would do ill to give him an appointment requiring even the earliest rudiments of diplomacy. 'Julia Barenna is my cousin. Her mother was my mother's sister.
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