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Updated: June 19, 2025
After Doctor Worth's flight, it became necessary for her to assume control over the household. She had promised him to do so, and she was resolved, in spite of all opposition, to follow out his instructions. But it was by no means an easy task. Fray Ignatius had both the Senora and Rachela completely under his subjection. Molly, the Irish cook, was already dissatisfied.
She made Rachela lay out her prettiest dress, and when Jack said "how beautiful your hair is, mother; no one has hair like you!" she drew out the great shell pins, and let it fall like a cloud around her, and with a glad pride gave Rachela the order to get out her jewelled comb and gilded fan and finest mantilla.
Rachela told me, I must fast on a Friday, and cut my nails on a Wednesday, and never cut them on a Sunday, and take medicine on a Monday, and look after money on Tuesday, and pay calls and give gifts on Saturday; very well, I do not think much of Rachela; just suppose, for the passing of the time, that we listen to what Quevedo says." "Here are four against me; well, then, proceed, Senor."
In a few moments the kerchief and the bow were safely folded in the capacious pocket of Rachela's apron, and Isabel and Antonia were softly treading the shady walk between the myrtle hedges. She wore, it is true, her Spanish costume; but she had red roses at her breast, and her white lace mantilla over her head. "Ah! she is a clever little thing!" Rachela muttered.
Rachela was past forty, but not yet past the age of coquetry. "It will look gorgeous with my gold ear-rings, but " "I will give you also the blue satin bow like it, to wear at your breast." "Si, si! I will give the permission, Senorita for your sake alone. The kerchief and bow are a little thing to you. To me, they will be a great adornment.
Antonia clasped his hand, stood close to him, and said: "We are all sure that you are right, dear father. My mother is weary and sick with anxiety, but she thinks so too. Mother always thinks as you do, father. Dear mother, here is Rachela with a cup of chocolate, and you will sleep and grow strong before morning."
Will you think of that? And the mother and uncle of Luis are angry at him; he will be disinherited, and we shall be very poor, I think. But there is always my father, who loves Luis." "Luis will win his own inheritance. I think you will be very rich." "And, Juan, if you see Luis, say to him, 'Iza thinks of you continually." At this moment Rachela angrily called her charge
"Fray Ignatius looks like a goblin; he gives me a shiver when he looks at me; and as for Rachela I already hate her!" "Do not trust her. You need not hate her, Isabel." "Antonia, I know that I shall eternally hate her; for I am sure that our angels are at variance." In conversations like these the anxious girls passed the long, and often very cold, nights.
Antonia knew also that Rachela was at heart unfaithful, and soon the conviction was forced on her that servants are never faithful beyond the line of their own interest that it is, indeed, against certain primary laws of nature to expect it. Certainly, it was impossible to doubt that there was in all their dependents a kind of satisfaction in their misfortunes.
Fortunately, Rachela had been so interested in the proceedings, and so determined to know all about them, that she seized the opportunity of the outcry to fly to "her poor Senora," and thus was ignorant of the most unusual step taken by Antonia.
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