They got into the habit of congregating about the same hearthstone.

It was the Senora's first real experience of domestic life.
In about six days the Mexican forces left the city.

The terms of surrender granted General Cos struck the Mexicans with a kind of wonder.
They had fought with the express declaration that they would take no American prisoner.

Yet the Americans not only permitted Cos and his troops to leave under parole of honor, but gave them their arms and sufficient ammunition to protect themselves from the Indians on their journey home.

They allowed them also all their private property.