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Remember the Alamo

CHAPTER XV
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Here, he may presume to come into your presence.

Will you receive him with extreme haughtiness?
It would be a great satisfaction to me." "The poor fellow! Why should I make him miserable?
You should not be jealous, Luis." "If you smile on him--the least little smile--he will think you are in love with him.

He is such a fool, I assure you.

I am very distressed about this matter, my angel." "I will tell you Luis--when the myrtle-tree grows figs, and the fig-tree is pink with myrtle flowers, then I may fall in love with Dias de Bonilla--if I can take the trouble." No one heeded this pretty, extravagant talk.

It was a thing apart from the more serious interests discussed by Doctor Worth and his wife and eldest daughter.


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