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CHAPTER VI. THROUGH THE WINDOW.
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The dining room of the Hacienda del Arenal was a vast, long room lighted by Gothic windows lined with coloured glass. The walls, covered with oak paneling, rendered black by time, gave it the appearance of a Carthusian refectory in the fifteenth century. An immense horseshoe table, surrounded by benches, except at the upper end, occupied the entire centre of the room.
When Count de la Saulay entered the dining room, the other guests, numbering from twenty to twenty-five, were already assembled.
Don Andrés, like many of the great Mexican landowners, had kept up on his estates the custom of making his people eat at the same table with himself.
This patriarchal custom, which has long fallen into desuetude1 in Europe, was for all that, in our opinion, one of the best our forefathers2 left us. This community of life drew together the bonds which attach masters to servants, and rendered the latter, so to speak, vassals3 of the family whose private life they shared up to a certain point.
Don Andrés de la Cruz was standing4 at the end of the room, between do?a Dolores, his daughter, and don Melchior, his son.
We will say nothing of do?a Dolores, with whom the reader is already acquainted. Don Melchior was a young man of nearly the same age as the count. His tall stature5 and powerful limbs rendered him a gallant6 gentleman, in the common acceptance of the term. His features were manly7 and marked, and his beard was black and full. He had a large, well open eye, a fixed8 and piercing glance: his very brown complexion9 had a slight olive tinge
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