5/9 After a time he replied with a sigh: "What I'm afraid of is that mother will scold you when she knows about it." "Do you think so ?" asked the younger with astonishment. "You will tell her that they're whipped me and I'll show the welts on my back and my torn pocket. I had only one cuarto, which was given to me last Easter, but the curate took that away from me yesterday. I never saw a prettier cuarto! No, mother won't believe it." "If the curate says so--" Crispin began to cry, murmuring between his sobs, "Then go home alone! I don't want to go. |