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Remember the Alamo

CHAPTER XII
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It was about Fray Ignatius and our uncle the Marquis de Gonzaga.

My good angel gave it to me; for myself and you all she gave it; and, as my blessed Lord lives! I will not go to them! SI! I will cut my white throat first!" and she drew her small hand with a passionate gesture across it.

She had stood up as she began to speak, and the action, added to her unmistakable terror, her stricken face and air of determination, was very impressive.
"You have had a dream, my darling ?" "Yes, an awful dream, Antonia! Mary! Mary! Tender Mary, pity us!" "And you think we should not go to the house of the marquis ?" "Oh, Antonia! I have seen the way.

It is black and cold, and full of fear and pain.

No one shall make me take it.


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