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Updated: June 29, 2025
But what is wrong with her? Look! She is ill " "She is often like that. It is the hunger. We have nothing to eat, senor. I, too, am ill dying; and Asensio Oh, you don't know how they have made us suffer." "We must get Rosa home. Where do you live?" Evangelina turned her death's head toward the city. "Down yonder. But what's the use? There is no food in our house and Rosa is afraid of those wagons.
"Yes; her eyes are open, but she sees nothing." "I don't like such things," the negro confessed in a shaky voice. "How can she walk if she is asleep? If her eyes are open, how can she help seeing us? You know she hates Evangelina and me."
She wanted, oh, so desperately, to believe in it, but the grinding misery of her situation made it hard to do so. Wonders like that came true only in fairy stories, she told herself; and certainly she had no cause to consider herself a favorite of fortune. More than once she was tempted to confide in Evangelina and Asensio, but she thought better of it.
First she made Evangelina cut her hair, a sacrilege that wrung sighs and tears and loud lamentations from the black woman, after which she altered the suit of boy's clothing to fit her figure, or rather to conceal it. When at last she put it on for O'Reilly's approval she was very shy, very self-conscious, and so altogether unboylike that he shook his head positively.
Asensio declared that he was too sick to be moved, and asserted that he would infinitely prefer to remain where he was, provided he was supplied with sufficient money to cover his needs. Evangelina agreed with him. Then, and not until then, did Rosa begin her preparations.
Isabel had overheard the wager, and her soul was evilly alight; she jerked the slave girl to her feet and with a blow of her palm sent her to her quarters. Then she turned her attention to the twins. When she left them they were weeping silently, both for themselves and for Evangelina, whom they dearly loved. Meanwhile Don Mario had resumed his singing.
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