It came from the City of Mexico, and there was not another like it.

I shall regret it all my life." "Maria, my dearest, it might have been worse.

The silver which adorned it is safe.

Those r--monks did not find out its hiding-place, and I bought you a far more beautiful sideboard in New Orleans; the very newest style, Maria." "Roberto! Roberto! How happy you make me! To be sure my cousin Johar's sideboard was already shabby--and to have a sideboard from New Orleans, that, indeed, is something to talk about!" "Besides, which, dearest one, I bought new furniture for the parlors, and for your own apartments; also for Antonia's and Isabel's rooms.
Indeed, Maria, I thought it best to provide afresh for the whole house." "How wonderful! No wife in San Antonio has a husband so good.

I will never condescend to speak of you when other women talk of their husbands.