In the morning Owen also announced that he had not
slept at all. Instantly Kate and he, Europeans in essence, understoodone
another.
Butit was evident that Don Ramón, by far the most
impressive personpresent, liked her. Those wonderful littlefairy-lands they carve in
jade! The only sensible thing thats been said about these AgrarianLaws.
She glimpsed this now for the first time, quite
apartfrom the talking, and it made her shy. Kate remembered the little General; he
was a good deal smaller thanherself.
Havent you anything for which you wouldlike
redress?
They have their occupations here, snapped the
Judge.
One never sees Popocatepetl nor Ixtaccihuatl, said
Kate,disappointed.
The Judge stamped his stick on the ground in a
speechless access ofirritability.
And thepillars that mark the water conduits passed
one by one. Saying the wrong thing has done all the mischief! He looked wan,peaked,
but like a bird that had successfully pecked a bellyful ofgarbage.
Whereas SHE felt as if she had eaten something
which was giving herptomaine poisoning.
But the General was sharper than the
woman.
Rather like a male Venus who is never undressed.
One never sees Popocatepetl nor Ixtaccihuatl, said Kate,disappointed. Theydont like
honesty and decency and cleanliness. Don Ramón Carrasco was a tall, big, handsome
man who gave theeffect of bigness. Myself, said Owen, as far as I have followed him,
I believe heis sincere, and I admire him.
Ive got a lovely little blacktortoise of jade from
China.
Till this minute she had not really been able to
recall him toherself, to get any sharp impression.
Twenty pesos is ten dollars, for ten minutes work.
But still there wassome very skilful work, very pretty. One wonders, said Mrs Norris
slowly, what he meant byAmericanism.