The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-06-19
WHY DORSEY REMAINED.
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THERE was not much excuse for
l Dorsey. He had horrible warn
ings under his very. eyes. He had,
time and again, said what he thought
about any American who would mar
ry a Mexican girl He knew quite
well enough that it, was a sin against
common sense, which carried its. own
sure punishment But he married a
Mexican; and the best that can be
said for him after that is that when
! the punishment came he took il. like
"a man, and no one, not even his wife
herself, ever heard him complain.
4 He had shaken the dice himself, and
! he abode by the throw. Al y.sg
81 She was pretty; he was lonely
ssat least he thought, then, that he
was, but later on undiscovered what
real loneliness is, the loneliness a
deux. To be sure, there were. Amer
lean girls in the town, but they; were
totally impossible, and, whatever else
was to be said of Candalaria ;Soubieta,
at least she was uncommonly we'll
born. Race was in every feature of
her pretty little face.
Dorsey had always cherished I'M
mitigated contempt for the Mexican
way of making love-, Candalaria had
not. So Dorsey made love in the
Mexican way-and to the uttermost.
In his time he had scoffed at youths
who would go to the opera and never
look once at the stage, in order that
they might nearly cut their necks
off on their high collars, twisting
their heads around to gaze at noyia
seated in her parents box. He did
not now. 1t was fechando, tribute
to his lady, which was expected of
him. He had to practice it every
where, in the plaza, in the cathe-
dral, in the portales.i He had to
stando on the sidewalk and talk to her
through the gratings of a window,
or, worse yet, up to her balcony.
All the world might both see and
hear, but she broke him to the ac-
ceptance of that. It was hacienda
Purse, and custom of the land. Dor
sey opined at first that it was a fool
costumbre, but Candalaria did not
understand. She explained that he
must see her that way or noteat all.
''But called at your house," he
objected, "before we were engaged"
1T is because we are engaged"
said Candalaria, "that you may not
call now"
A wit has observed that when the
irresistible meets the immoyable. If
the immovable be woman, the ire
sistible retireth from business. But
only one who has observed Mexican
woman and her ways can get the full
force of that. Dorsey relinquished his
Anglo-saxon prejudices against adj
vertising sentiments and affections
to an unfeeling world. He made love
through the gratings and by twine-
graph for the passers-by to see.
Candalaria went upon the principle
that experience has taught the wo-
man Of her people, and, believing
that it was well to get quite all she
could in the way Of devotion out of
a man while he was yet her novio,
since none would be Forthcoming
from husband, she put Dorsey
through the PAGES very thoroughly.
She quarreled with him for no other
purpose than to make him sue for
her favor and eat humble pie. She
was sweetness itself one moment.
and abominable the next. She broke
the engagement half a dozen times.
Dorsey was not simpleton. He had
more than ordinary ability and good
sense. With an American girl for
o sweetheart he would have put up
with no nonsense at all. But he was
putty in Candalaria's little hands.
If you doubt the consistency of that.
Just go to Mexico and watch similar
case for a while. al
It was, however, after the senorita
Soubieta had condescended from the
glory Of her high estate to wed a
mere Gringo, and had become the
Sonora Dorsey, that Dorsey's real
pleasures began. To start with, he
!, found that he had q, family made to
his hand. The sisters and the cous-
ms and the aunts Of "Pinafore" were