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Miss
Avellanos
,
born
in
Europe
and
educated
partly
in
England
,
was
a
tall
,
grave
girl
,
with
a
self-possessed
manner
,
a
wide
,
white
forehead
,
a
wealth
of
rich
brown
hair
,
and
blue
eyes
.
The
other
young
ladies
of
Sulaco
stood
in
awe
of
her
character
and
accomplishments
.
She
was
reputed
to
be
terribly
learned
and
serious
.
As
to
pride
,
it
was
well
known
that
all
the
Corbelans
were
proud
,
and
her
mother
was
a
Corbelan
.
Don
Jose
Avellanos
depended
very
much
upon
the
devotion
of
his
beloved
Antonia
.
He
accepted
it
in
the
benighted
way
of
men
,
who
,
though
made
in
God
's
image
,
are
like
stone
idols
without
sense
before
the
smoke
of
certain
burnt
offerings
.
He
was
ruined
in
every
way
,
but
a
man
possessed
of
passion
is
not
a
bankrupt
in
life
.
Don
Jose
Avellanos
desired
passionately
for
his
country
:
peace
,
prosperity
,
and
(
as
the
end
of
the
preface
to
"
Fifty
Years
of
Misrule
"
has
it
)
"
an
honourable
place
in
the
comity
of
civilized
nations
.
"
In
this
last
phrase
the
Minister
Plenipotentiary
,
cruelly
humiliated
by
the
bad
faith
of
his
Government
towards
the
foreign
bondholders
,
stands
disclosed
in
the
patriot
.
The
fatuous
turmoil
of
greedy
factions
succeeding
the
tyranny
of
Guzman
Bento
seemed
to
bring
his
desire
to
the
very
door
of
opportunity
.
He
was
too
old
to
descend
personally
into
the
centre
of
the
arena
at
Sta
.
Marta
.
But
the
men
who
acted
there
sought
his
advice
at
every
step
.
He
himself
thought
that
he
could
be
most
useful
at
a
distance
,
in
Sulaco
.
His
name
,
his
connections
,
his
former
position
,
his
experience
commanded
the
respect
of
his
class
.
The
discovery
that
this
man
,
living
in
dignified
poverty
in
the
Corbelan
town
residence
(
opposite
the
Casa
Gould
)
,
could
dispose
of
material
means
towards
the
support
of
the
cause
increased
his
influence
.
It
was
his
open
letter
of
appeal
that
decided
the
candidature
of
Don
Vincente
Ribiera
for
the
Presidency
.
Another
of
these
informal
State
papers
drawn
up
by
Don
Jose
(
this
time
in
the
shape
of
an
address
from
the
Province
)
induced
that
scrupulous
constitutionalist
to
accept
the
extraordinary
powers
conferred
upon
him
for
five
years
by
an
overwhelming
vote
of
congress
in
Sta
.
Marta
.
It
was
a
specific
mandate
to
establish
the
prosperity
of
the
people
on
the
basis
of
firm
peace
at
home
,
and
to
redeem
the
national
credit
by
the
satisfaction
of
all
just
claims
abroad
.
On
the
afternoon
the
news
of
that
vote
had
reached
Sulaco
by
the
usual
roundabout
postal
way
through
Cayta
,
and
up
the
coast
by
steamer
.
Don
Jose
,
who
had
been
waiting
for
the
mail
in
the
Goulds
'
drawing-room
,
got
out
of
the
rocking-chair
,
letting
his
hat
fall
off
his
knees
.
He
rubbed
his
silvery
,
short
hair
with
both
hands
,
speechless
with
the
excess
of
joy
.
"
Emilia
,
my
soul
,
"
he
had
burst
out
,
"
let
me
embrace
you
!
Let
me
--
"
Captain
Mitchell
,
had
he
been
there
,
would
no
doubt
have
made
an
apt
remark
about
the
dawn
of
a
new
era
;
but
if
Don
Jose
thought
something
of
the
kind
,
his
eloquence
failed
him
on
this
occasion
.
The
inspirer
of
that
revival
of
the
Blanco
party
tottered
where
he
stood
.
Mrs.
Gould
moved
forward
quickly
and
,
as
she
offered
her
cheek
with
a
smile
to
her
old
friend
,
managed
very
cleverly
to
give
him
the
support
of
her
arm
he
really
needed
.
Don
Jose
had
recovered
himself
at
once
,
but
for
a
time
he
could
do
no
more
than
murmur
,
"
Oh
,
you
two
patriots
!
Oh
,
you
two
patriots
!
"
--
looking
from
one
to
the
other
.
Vague
plans
of
another
historical
work
,
wherein
all
the
devotions
to
the
regeneration
of
the
country
he
loved
would
be
enshrined
for
the
reverent
worship
of
posterity
,
flitted
through
his
mind
.
The
historian
who
had
enough
elevation
of
soul
to
write
of
Guzman
Bento
:
"
Yet
this
monster
,
imbrued
in
the
blood
of
his
countrymen
,
must
not
be
held
unreservedly
to
the
execration
of
future
years
.
It
appears
to
be
true
that
he
,
too
,
loved
his
country
.
He
had
given
it
twelve
years
of
peace
;
and
,
absolute
master
of
lives
and
fortunes
as
he
was
,
he
died
poor
.
His
worst
fault
,
perhaps
,
was
not
his
ferocity
,
but
his
ignorance
;
"
the
man
who
could
write
thus
of
a
cruel
persecutor
(
the
passage
occurs
in
his
"
History
of
Misrule
"
)
felt
at
the
foreshadowing
of
success
an
almost
boundless
affection
for
his
two
helpers
,
for
these
two
young
people
from
over
the
sea
.
