One never sees Popocatepetl nor Ixtaccihuatl, said
Kate,disappointed. And how are you likingMexico, Mrs Leslie?
Some tough individual scrambles up out of the
squalor and proceedsto save himself. But to be President Elect, and to be received
by the StreetSweepers Band! And the doctorwanting to send me down to a lower
altitude!
In the road two motor-cars were already standing.
But she was an oddnumber; and all alone, she could give the even numbers a bad
time.
If onlytheir deeds followed their words, Mexico
would be heaven on earth.
Let me ring up the Governor and report
this.
The StreetSweepers Band they sent to receive him
from the ship!
He looked wan,peaked, but like a bird that had
successfully pecked a bellyful ofgarbage.
They seem to WANT the ugly things to come up to the
top. Ive had enough of canaille, of any sort, she said. The Pole was unhealthy and
unclean-looking.
Kate sat trying to sew, but her hand
trembled.
At about seven oclock Villiers came
tapping.
CHAPTER IIIFortieth BirthdayKate woke up one
morning, aged forty. Oh, but maynt it be possible that he will change his views
alittle on coming into power? Someone was calling Miss Leslie on the telephone, said
the Mexicanchambermaid. Ive been trying SO hard to get out to see you, to ask about
it. Hewas a tall wiry fellow with a reddened pock-marked face and sharplittle black
eyes.
Owen, in hisbig shell spectacles, was evidently a
red rag to his irritablefellow-countryman.
But she felt they were atleast baked hot and to a
certain satisfactory colour.
Ah, my dear Mr Rhys, they ALL talk so nobly
beforehand. One stood on his cloak while a bullcharged him. On the other side
something different: reserve, responsibility, acertain standing back from fun.