Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . very pre-possessing character; but not muchmore forbidding than the darkskinned natives of his class usuallyare. Besides these persons, therewas an old woman, who seemed tobe the mistress of the house,and a rather pretty young /^Senorita, to whom theFrenchman immediatelydirected his the girl received his ad-vances with apparent indif-1ference, and he observed;that she frequently leanedher face upon her hands, for the
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . very pre-possessing character; but not muchmore forbidding than the darkskinned natives of his class usuallyare. Besides these persons, therewas an old woman, who seemed tobe the mistress of the house,and a rather pretty young /^Senorita, to whom theFrenchman immediatelydirected his the girl received his ad-vances with apparent indif-1ference, and he observed;that she frequently leanedher face upon her hands, for the love of god, senor, fly from this though suffering from pain, or anxiety, and he fancied she occa-sionally looked upon him with an expression of uneasiness. As the express rider, like most of his countrymen in our army,had acquired a perfect knowledge of the Spanish, the old Mexicanremarked that for an American he spoke their language remarkablywell—equal, in fact to a Castilian. I am no American, said he. No American! repeated the Mexican, with an expression ofsurprise ; then what countryman are you, may I ask ? I am a Frenchman, replied 142 A TEXAN rangers FEARFUL ADVENTURE. Oh, then, was the answer, you are almost half Spaniard, But,if I am not much mistaken, you are here with those Americanos,after all! There was a peculiar manner about his host, and a certain toneof voice, as he made this last remark, that caused a feeling of un-easiness in the mind of the Frenchman, and for a few moments hemade no reply; and when at length he spoke, asserting that he wasnow temporarily in the employ of the Americans, he heard a sound,like a half suppressed sigh, from the young woman at his side. At this moment Jose returned from the stable, and approachingJean, whispered: I hope, Senor, these people are friendly; but there is somethingabout the place I dont like. The other buildings are full of suspi-cious looking fellows, who seem to me to be guerillas ! Startling as wa
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