Her bracelets, her chain of gold, her brooch and rings were scattered on the floor, and she was standing in the centre of it, like an enraged creature; tearing her handkerchief into strips, as an emphasis to her passionate denunciations.
"It serves him right! JESUS! MARIA! JOSEPH! It serves him right! He must carry arms! HE, TOO! when it was forbidden! I am glad he is arrested! Oh, Roberto! Roberto!" "Patience, my daughter! This is the hand of God.

What can you do but submit ?" "What is it, mi madre ?" and Isabel put her arms around her mother with the words mi madre.

"Tell Isabel your sorrow." "Your father is arrested--taken to the Alamo--he will be sent to the mines.

I told him so! I told him so! He would not listen to me! How wicked he has been!" "What has my father done, Fray Ignatius?
Why have they arrested him ?" The priest turned to Antonia with a cold face.

He did not like her.