Good! you have yet to show that a connection with any of your race would be anything but a disgrace." "Ah! you defy me, little one! Caramba! Listen, then! You do not know all! When you thought I was only helping you to fabricate your claim to the Arguellos' name, I was finding out WHO YOU REALLY WERE! Ah! It was not so difficult as you fondly hope, senora.

We were not all brutes and fools in the early days, though we stood aside to let your people run their vulgar course.

It was your hired bully--your respected guardian--this dog of an espadachin, who let out a hint of the secret--with a prick of his blade--and a scandal.

One of my peon women was a servant at the convent when you were a child, and recognized the woman who put you there and came to see you as a friend.
She overheard the Mother Superior say it was your mother, and saw a necklace that was left for you to wear.

Ah! you begin to believe! When I had put this and that together I found that Pepita could not identify you with the child that she had seen.