We shall have dinner directly, then you will give the night to me ?" After a short conversation he led him into the sala and introduced him to Antonia.

He himself had to prepare the Senora for her visitor, and he had a little quaking of the heart as he entered her room.

She was dressed for dinner, and turned with a laughing face to meet him.
"I have been listening to the cooks quarrelling over the olla, Roberto.
But what can my poor Manuel say when your Irishwoman attacks him.

Listen to her! 'Take your dirty stew aff the fire then! Shure it isn't fit for a Christian to ate at all!'" "I hope it is, Maria, for we have a visitor to-night." "Who, then, my love ?" "Mr.Houston." "Sam Houston?
Holy Virgin of Guadalupe preserve us! I will not see the man." "I think you will, Maria.

He has brought this letter for you from our son Thomas; and he has been so kind as to take charge of some fine horses, and sell them well for him in San Antonio.