Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-08-10

| '3'"I {, the tepming strar's. nS"rrrrI,lr.
| with vnrulation nf the un-' nli~or"n!" Z.
| tud's creatures amcu~ whom tc lahrirn
lrtcn until long past mi1ui-h'. " NAV hr
supposed, rs his adoplnd d'u .Gt"i gr'v t.
| yarl wnp1nhond. tE' "o'. ll1.~i 'Ha' i''
! uerceivc that he must not l'3v' TIER at Luiic,
alone and unprotected. rh'rc.orH, he in.
| creased his household Ivy tl'a Iii.;ou If nm
| aged woman the mother IF one of lis con
| ireres, who was h1' t'n Glnny ~ encounter
! such n refuge, and lend to Bc1tr,, dc MILAN
| the protection Of her pr"sc.'o
| The priests adopted lau shi"r ,.r,w up
! noble woman. Not lady OF .h" vie" regal
| court could compare with hcf j., hooEtN, vet
she was modest ana r't'ri"1 70, any uol"l'aiu
| violet, as if she had lived in world apart
| from that city OF tovcrish loves AMI hates,
ambitious, intrigneS and gaIHntries. She
! was more learned tilhh most nlcn IN those
days of careless iEn"ronr" yet skilled in all
womanly knowledge. The nuns of con
vent, where Juan lie NaNa was conteSsor, had
! taught her the cunning ol their hruderlcs
ana all lhlhhuroi hahdl""ik' ana thes simple
! lare ana the aScetc car" tnNing "l Juan de
NaVas household WIS al the work OF TIC
maiden
| Nlthal, Sne was deNout ana plouS. Her
| GUARDIAN hau uaughU her that, Whlle good
| WORKS are OF greater import imam all the
| lorhs Oh observance somewhat "I the dalIy
dolnS OF oulces Is he'uluI' II but Tor the sake
OF example. therefore, she rose Defines,
ana went 10 near carry mass she had long
Rneit at the altar OF one OF the MINOR
churches, near the dwelling OF her guardian;
Dut the suburb grew ulSorderly, ana more
than once unseemly drunken brawls had
o Deen proved, at Vne very ooor Oh inc temple
ineieloIe' Juan ue NaNa p"ue ms "aru go
i"o I W '"'n Ai'P'ii'0' 'O'i'"'i"U i"l'nei
"iUnil 'he 'i'y'
ANA there IL was that Beatrl2 was first
seen OF DOMINGO Harraza, the religious
rake, as MS Vlceroy called MN, IN converse
| WIN the oldor Amasa lie was or noble
olrtn Ihls calaVeroh, thls young prohlgate
OF the hrst water and wealthy as he was
handsome de spent his money IN torrents,
| on every caprice, on every extravaganza of
luxury ana ostentatlon. bis was the most
: gorgeous paraphernalla or the annual festi-
walls OF I'll Pendon, and to say this implies,
indeed, much On these occasions, on the
| 18th OF August every year, the day of San
Hipolito, Ell Pendon-the standard of Cortez
was carried i'll triumph, escorted by
great cavalcade of Spaniards' from the Pala-
cIo Municipal to the church of San Hipolito,
IN commemoration of the fact that on this
| date Cortez achieved the final capture of the
| Aztec city. And to shine pre-eminent in
these professions was the ambition Of every
! young Spanlard IN Mexico, and each tried to
! outllVe all Others in the sumftuousness OF his
! appointments But, year after year, not
wthstanding the efforts of his competitors,
! the palm for elegance and costliness fell to
the share of Domingo Sarraza.
! But not all his lavish expenditure nor his
| Alterations of jovial good-fellowship could
make the young man popular 1t was not
alone that he was a scoundrel of gross vice
| That might have been overlooked, for the
, tastes of the day were not squeamish, and a
reputation for gallantries and rakishness was
then as now deemed feather in the cap of a
man, rather than otherwise. There was
| Diego de Faj ardo, and Luis del Rio Antoni,
Mendez Torres, and score Of others, the
idols of the city, notwithstanding perhaps,
| indeed because of-their wild bouts and ex-
cesses. But Sarraza was not of them There
was a magnancy in his vices that repealed
| the others happy-go-ucky young fellows that
they were, and they shrank from his com.
partnership. He got good many disdainfui
names, too, from them-''the friar," 'the
! pious one" and divers such pseudonyms, in
! consequence of his hypocritical zeal in church
| matters. In former days his blasphemies
| had been so rank ana blatant that it had
i been threatened that he should expatiate
| them IN the hoguera, the burning place of
the inqulStlon' IN front OF San Diego, where
| now run the Ieaiy walks OF the pleasant Ala
media such menace from the holy office
! might well lntmldate the braveSt man
| III lhose Gays, ana Domingo Sair "a
was no nero. lie FASTENED to felgn serious
frame OF m'nd TO pretend conversion and
| repentance ana TO perform all the churchly
olhce'' 10 avert the realization OF the sinister
/ prophecy 10y day ana by night he wore
ross on his BOSOM and as regularly as the
Jay rolled around, he attended mass like any
/ d'votee. 1t was this spurious piety perhaps,
shat was most distasteful to those who should
rave been the associates OF Sarraza, but 1t
/ "as not altogether cowardlce That Kept HIM
/ in the path he followed, although this had
/ neeh the original lmpelllnS motive. 1t was at
church that Ihe Games ana ualhSelS OF Mexico
| assembled most freely, ana Ill church OF on
: the way Thence OF IhltAer thaI they were
most easy or access Tor IN" uitrrance OF an
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