John had the romance and sensitive honor of old Spain, mingled with the love of liberty, and the practical temper, of those Worths who had defied both Charles the First and George the Third.

But Isabel had no soul-kinship with her father's people.

Robert Worth had seen in the Yturbide residencia in Mexico the family portraits which they had brought with them from Castile.

Isabel was the Yturbide of her day.

She had all their physical traits, and from her large golden-black eyes the same passionate soul looked forth.