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In other words, I am going to begin to train you, chiquita, in business." "Business?" murmured the girl. "Ah! That word frightens me I am so ignorant." "Your first lesson shall not tire or dismay you," promised Don Luis, gently. "Now, place your chair close beside mine, and look over this ledger with me. I shall not attempt to make you comprehend too much at first."
It may, however, have been due to monastic humility, or to simple prudence: a desire not to provoke opponents who declared that Luis de Leon had Jewish blood in his veins. Whether this assertion, a serious one in sixteenth-century Spain, had any foundation in fact is disputed.
The points in the country, too, he noticed, as he passed them, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Point Año Nuevo, the opening to Monterey, which to my disappointment we did not visit.
The same evening he took his place on the Sacramento train en route for Marysville. When Gerald reached San Luis, the postoffice address of the Ugarte ranch, a disappointment awaited him. Evening was falling, and inquiry elicited the fact that Don Vincenza's residence was still twelve miles distant.
Most of the company, however, shouted with glee, including Luis Cervantes' girl. She had spilled all her wine on a handkerchief and looked all about her with blue wondering eyes. "Boys," Blondie suddenly screamed, his shrill, guttural voice dominating the mall, "I'm tired of living; I feel like killing myself right now.
"Besides, your promise ought to bind you to still greater brevity. But it seems to please your noble nature to insult a defenceless, ill-treated woman. True, perhaps it is done on behalf of the mighty man who stands so far above me." "How far, you will yet learn to your harm," replied Don Luis, once more master of himself.
He felt, at the thought of it, the same fears that had maddened Inspector Vérot when, already tortured by the poison, he stammered: "Oh, I don't like this, I don't like the look of this!... The whole thing has been planned in such an infernal manner!" Infernal was the word! And Don Luis remained stupefied at the revelation of a crime which looked as if no human brain could have conceived it.
In this healthfully located village lived a pastor and a sacristan of whom the musician had spoken, and who perhaps later might take charge of the child's education. Adrian informed Don Luis and then the monarch of all this, and as Quijada knew Massi to be a trustworthy man, and described him to his royal master, Charles entered into negotiations with him.
If I were weaker than I am, and should rear yonder splendid boy, who charmed you also, Luis, under my own eyes with paternal affection, many an unexpected joy might grow for me; but I still have an immense amount of work to do, and therefore lack time to toy with a child. It is my duty to replace this boy's claims, which I can not recognise, with higher ones, and I will fulfill it."
"Yet what difference does it make, Gato. As soon as Don Luis is through with the Americanos he will restore you to your old position." "It is because the Americanos treated me with such contempt," retorted Pedro. "No man sneers at me and lives." "You unhung bandit!" muttered Tom under his breath.
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