The Pearl of Lima: A Story of True Love
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ace on the Plaza-Mayor, that forum of the ancient city of kings; artisans were profiting by the coolness to quit their daily labors; they circulated actively among the crowd, crying their various merchandise; the ladies of Lima, carefully enveloped in the mantillas which mask their countenances, with the exception o
e Indians passed without lifting their eyes upon them, knowing themselves to be beneath their notice; betraying by no gesture or word, the bitter envy of t
the Indians whom they had conquered, and the mestizoes, born of their relations with the natives of the New World. The Indians, on the contrary, were constantly s
nd Indian in their hatred which they had vowed against the Span
cloth or cotton in the form of a parallelogram, with an opening in the middle to give passage to the head, in large pantaloons,
a very obsequious young man,
a young mestizo of swarthy complexion, whose thin
ator Lafuente, had inherited a large fortune; this he freely scattered among his
ch disturb Peru to gratify private ambition?" resumed André, in a loud voice; "
der the most republican government, could n
in a calêche drawn by mules? Have not my ships brought wealth and prosperity t
o horses! Don Fernand d'Aiquillo! He has scarcely property enough to feed his coachman and horses, and he
the Marquis Don Vegal, knight of Alcantara, of Malta, and of Charles III. He had a right to appear in this pompous equipage; the viceroy and the archbishop could alone take precedence of him; but this great nobleman came here from ennui and not from ostentation; his thoughts
man," said
not hate
e last splendors of their luxury; I can tell w
entrée with the Jew
his strong-box are piled the wrecks of great fortunes; and in the day when the
ou are about to double your fortune! When are you to marry the beautiful young daughter of old S
proudly, "there will be no fortune
"do you not espouse some Sp
people as much
been repulsed by several noble families, in
when the latter was rudely elbowed by a man of tall stature, whose gray hairs proclaimed him to
d by red garters to stockings of clay-color; on his feet were sandals made of ojotas, ox-hide prepared for this purpose; beneath his high-pointed
laimed the mestizo, rai
. Milleflores, whose face was
André! t
! to presume
dman! it is
The latter, whose anger was unbounded, had seized a poignard at his girdle, and was about to have rushed on the impassable aggressor, when a gut
owardly!" exc
ftly. "Let us leave the Plaza-Mayor; the
autiously around to see whether he was not within reac
e at the house of Jew
gro; you can offer some oranges or ananas to the charmi
re Milleflores hoped his good looks would be appreciated; but it was nightfall, and the young Limaniennes merited
. The greatest variety of trades seemed to be congregated there, and from the Portal de Escribanos to the Portal de Botoneros, there was one immense display of articles of every kind, the Plaza-Mayor serving at once as promenade, bazaar, market and fair. The ground-floor of the viceroy's palace is occupied by shops; along the first s
llar, which rises in the middle of the fountain and is surmounted with a statue of Fame, the water falls in sheets, and is discharged into a basin beneath through t
stars of night rise above the snowy summits of the Cordilleras, the t
re succeeds the murmur of prayer; the women pause in their walk and put their hands on their rosaries, invoking the Virgin Mary. Then, not a me
g multitude; she was followed by a mestizo woman, a sort of duenna, who watched every glance and step. The duenna, as if she had not understood the warning be
ghter of Satan?" sai
alarina-that i
women." (A reproachful na
last stopped, blus
d her to kneel; but he had scarcely laid his hand upon her when a vigorous arm rudely felle
gentle and respectful voice
an of tall stature, who, with his arms tranquilly folded,
, for the love of God!" and she seized the arm of the young
l, and thinking it not prudent to seek rev
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