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“MRS. GOULD was too intelligently sympathetic not to share that feeling. It made life exciting, and she was too much of a woman not to like excitement. But it frightened her, too, a little; and when Don Jose Avellanos, rocking in the American chair, would go so far as to say, “Even, my dear Carlos, if you had failed; even if some untoward1 event were yet to destroy your work — which God forbid! — you would have deserved well of your country,” Mrs. Gould would look up from the tea-table profoundly at her unmoved husband stirring the spoon in the cup as though he had not heard a word.
Not that Don Jose anticipated anything of the sort. He could not praise enough dear Carlos’s tact2 and courage. His English, rock-like quality of character was his best safeguard, Don Jose affirmed; and, turning to Mrs. Gould, “As to you, Emilia, my soul”— he would address her with the familiarity of his age and old friendship —“you are as true a patriot3 as though you had been born in our midst.”
This might have been less or more than the truth. Mrs. Gould, accompanying her husband all over the province in the search for labour, had seen the land with a deeper glance than a trueborn Costaguanera could have done. In her travel-worn riding habit, her face powdered white like a plaster cast, with a further protection of a small silk mask during the heat of the day, she rode on a well-shaped, light-footed pony4 in the centre of a little cavalcade5. Two mozos de campo, picturesque6 in great hats, with spurred bare heels, in white embroidered7 calzoneras, leather jackets and striped ponchos8, rode ahead with carbines across their shoulders, swaying in unison
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charcoal
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conquerors
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authorization
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imperturbable
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provincial
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tilting
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braying
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plaza
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aristocrats
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goodwill
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