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Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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must be corresponded with in the slow process ofthe mail. A telegram would have quickened her fears and hercovetousness. She must consult her compadre and all her family.The least conception that it was being bought for the Protestantswould have probably cut off all negotiations at the start, or wouldcertainly have leaked out and cut them off very soon thereafter. The lessee was left out of the transaction. His case would haveto be managed after the purchase was completed. The other threeparties were slowly and softly approached, and after nearly threemonths from the date of that ten minutes visit, and the issuingthereupon of the order to secure, if possible, the property, I hadthe supreme satisfaction of receiving the above telegram at thehot and dusty and desolate San Antonio. Is it any wonder thespot blossomed into beauty? The white dust turned to lilies. Thehot sun tempered its blaze seemingly to the most genial warmth.Perhaps this event increased the comeliness of the family, and
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A BRIBE SPURNED. 43I made Peg of San Antonio more beautiful than she really was. Itwas not powerful enough to transform the almuerzo into a break-fast of delights. There were limits to even its ability. The end of the journey and its objective end are reached at oneand the same time. The cause of our coming puts its doxologyand benediction in at the end of our going. Against unseen andunnumbered foes, against Mexican procrastination, against possi-ble treachery, against perils without and fears within, success isassured. How great this peril was, a single fact illustrated. Mr. Sullivanwas approached, the very day he had consummated the purchase,and when he yet held the titles in his own name, by the leadingnative broker of the city with an offer of five thousand dollars forhis bargain. The offer was undoubtedly from a higher source, forthe property had laid idle for years, and was of no possible use tothe broker, there being acres of like convent ruins at his com-mand over all the cit

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