Leandro Ortez

"... der, while within her was breaking a revolution as real as that in her lover was emotional. His unreasonableness, his injustice, stood out in contrast with the generosity of Leandro Ortez. who had refused to hold her or i" blame her when he learned that she had given her heart to another, but had Insisted on her keeping all his gifts. ..."

"... within a bue of carriages in the Chapultepec park meeting another line of carriages, while persons ln both lines were each other with roses. Suddenly Pepita caught sight of Leandro Ortez coming. As lie passed he was struck i ln the face with a rose. Looking at hls assailant, he saw Pepita smiling at him. Ortez considered the rose and the smile a recall. The same evening he Pepita and their engagement was j Within a short time after the new’ engagement the furniture that had ..."

"... a line of carriages in the Chapultepec park meeting another line of carriages, while persons in both lines were pelting each other with roses. Suddenly ^Pepita caught sight of Leandro Ortez coming. As he passed he was struck in the face with a rose. Looking at his assailant, lie saw Pepita smiling at him. Ortez considered the rose and the smile a recall. The same evening be saw Pepita and their engagement was renewed. Within a short time after the new engagement the furniture that ..."

"... them over her flaming dark eyes before the admiring gaze of a man, rendered her very attractive. When she was fifteen ?a marriageable age in Mexico?she s-as wooed by Leandro Ortez, a wealthy man twenty years her senior, and, since he was well off, her father accepted him for her. She had never hud a lover and was not averse to ..."