6/8 Please don't contradict me, senor" (she always called me 'senor'); "it makes me angry. You are the man whom I delight to honor and desire to wed; what would you have more ?" "Nothing--I would not have so much. You are too good; but it would be wrong. I really cannot let you throw yourself away on a nameless foreigner. Besides what would your caciques say ?" "If any man dare say a word against you I will have his tongue torn out by the roots." "But suppose I am married already--that I have left a wife in my own country ?" I urged in desperation. |