For she is a very shrewd woman, and she perceives that Santa Anna is preparing trouble enough for it." "Well, then, what is it ?" "When I left her house, I noticed many Americans, as well as many Mexicans, on the streets.

They were standing together, too; and there was something in their faces, and in the way their arms were carried, which was very striking and portentous.

I fancied they looked coldly on me, and I was troubled by the circumstance.

In the Plaza I saw the military band approaching, accompanied by half a dozen officers and a few soldiers.

The noise stopped suddenly, and Captain Morello proclaimed as a bando (edict) of the highest authority, an order for all Americans to surrender their arms of every description to the officials and at the places notified." "Very good!" "Maria, nothing could be worse! Nothing could be more shameful and disastrous.