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Title: A diplomat's wife in Mexico : letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8th, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shaughnessy, Edith, 1870-1939
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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salutingSenora Huerta, the big room seemed almost entireflyfilled with small, thick-busted women, with black hairparted on one side over low, heavy brows, and helddown by passementerie bandeaux; well-slippered, verytiny feet, were much in evidence. None of the aristo-crats were there, but el Cuerpo, was out in full force. The President came at about six oclock, walkingquickly into the room as the national air was played, andwe all arose. It was the first time I had seen him. N.presented me, and we three stood talking, in the middleof the room, while everybody watched America andMexico. Huerta is a short, broad-shouldered man of strongIndian type, with an expression at once serious, amiable,and penetrating; he has restless, vigilant eyes, screenedbehind large glasses, and shows no signs of the much-talked-of alcoholism. Instead, he looked like a total ab-stainer. I was much impressed by a certain underlyingforce whose momentum may carry him to recognition—now the great end of all. 60
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A DIPLOMATS WIFE IN MEXICO 1 felt myself a bit quivery at the thought of thewar-cloud hanging over these people, and of how the mandominating the assembly took his life in his hands at hisevery appearance, and was apparently resolved to dierather than cede one iota to my country. After the usualgreetings, a los pies de Vd. senora (at your feet,sefiora), etc., he remarked, with a smile, that he wassorry I should find things still a little strained on myreturn, but that he hoped for a way out of the very nat-ural difficulties. I answered rather ambiguously, so faras he is concerned, that I loved Mexico and didnt wantto leave it. I felt my eyes fill over the potentialities ofthe situation, whereupon he answered, as any gentleman,anyivhere in the world, might have done, that now thatla senora had returned things might be arranged! Afterthis he gave his arm to Madame Ortega, wife of theGuatemalan minister, the ranking wife of the Spanishminister being ill, and Madame Lefaivre not yet arriv

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