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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...earth to have caught her yielding figure in his arms.' She drooped in the saddle beside him in a pose which was a confession of womanly weakness and she swayed toward him as if the heart in her body cried out to that which beat in his own breast. Mercedes 1 Mercedes! he said, you torture me beyond endurance! Go back to your duenna, to Sefiora Agapida, I beg of you! I can stand no more! I did promise and vow in my heart--my honor--my duty Ay, with men it is different, said the girl, and the sound of a sob in her voice cut him to the heart, and these things are above love, above everything. I do not--I can not understand. I can not comprehend. You have rejected me--I have offered myself to you a second time--after the refusal of last night. Where is my Spanish pride? Where is my maidenly modesty? That reserve that should be the better part of woman is gone. I know not honor--duty--I only know that though you reject me, I am yours. I, too, am a slave. I love you. Nay, I Alvarado threw his right arm around her, and with a force superhuman dragged her from the saddle. can not marry Don Felipe de Tobar. 'Twere to make a sacrilege of a sacrament. Thy father I have done my best to obey him. I can no more. What wilt thou do? This! cried the girl desperately. The road at the point they had arrived wound sharply around the spur of the mountain which rose above them thousands of feet on one side and fell abruptly away in a terrific precipice upon the other. As she spoke she struck her horse again with the whip. At the same time by a violent wrench on the bridle rein she turned him swiftly toward the open cliff. Quick as she had been, however, Alvarado's own movement was quicker. He struck spur into his powerful barb and with a single bound...

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