Cleorita and Oviata, with intuitive susceptibility, detected the new phase of attraction to which Mr. Welson had become subject, and assumed the entertainment of his adopted children until evening song, although they were inclined to hold padre carita in attendance on the plea that they should not see him from to-morrow for a whole month. With the canopied¹ shadows cast by the sun’s decline over the city, the eyes of Lovieta and Lavoca, under the reactive weight of unusual excitement, began to flicker², and they were dismissed to their beds while expressing in drowsy³ accents the happiness they anticipated from the warmth of their adoption⁴ by the ni?étas de escuela. The twilight⁵ chirps⁶ of the suffragian court sparrows from trellis-vine perches⁷, in preparation for their song of praise, had scarce betokened⁸ the break of day, before Cleorita and Oviata aroused with fondlings their nycephas from their deep sleep into the dreamful slumbers⁹ that precede with herald¹⁰ prelude¹¹ the instinctive¹² mood of ruling impression. While yet hovering¹³ with suspended wings in the balance of sleeping and waking impressions, conscious affection murmured in pleading accents, “Mamma, papa, poco mas sué?o?” But with the

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