For even if Fray Ignatius were able to visit them, his report would be colored by his prejudices and his desires, and could not be relied on.
Her heart fluttered and sank; she was hot and cold, sanguine and fearful.

She could not endure the idea of a suspense unrelieved by any reliable word.

For the siege might be a long one.

San Antonio was strongly walled and defended.

The Alamo fortress stood in its centre.
It had forty-eight cannon, and a garrison of a thousand men.