And with this mingled an intense sense of personal wrong from her husband.

"Had she not begged him to be passive?
And he had put an old rifle before her and her daughters! It was all that Senor Houston's doing.

She had an assurance of that." She invoked a thousand maledictions on him.

She recalled, with passionate reproaches, Jack's infidelity to her and his God and his country.

Her anger passed from one subject to another constantly, finding in all, even in the lukewarmness of Antonia and Isabel, and in their affection for lovers, who were also rebels, an accumulating reason for a stupendous reproach against herself, her husband, her children, and her unhappy fate.