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Maruja

CHAPTER III
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Nor were these confidences confined to only one nationality.

"I always thought you Spanish gentlemen were very dark, and wore long mustaches and a cloak," said pretty little Miss Walker, gazing frankly into the smooth round face of the eldest Pacheco--"why, you are as fair as I am," "Eaf I tink that, I am for ever mizzarable," he replied, with grave melancholy.

In the dead silence that followed he was enabled to make his decorous point.

"Because I shall not ezcape ze fate of Narcissus." Mr.Buchanan, with the unrestrained and irresponsible enjoyment of a traveler, entered fully into the spirit of the scene.

He even found words of praise for Aladdin, whose extravagance had at first seemed to him almost impious.


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