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jected, ‘Don’t answer him, Emilia. He is attacking me.’‘You surely do not think I was attacking Don Carlos!’ Decoudanswered.And then the carriage stopped before the door of theCasa Gould. The young man offered his hand to the ladies.They went in first together; Don Jose walked by the side ofDecoud, and the gouty old porter tottered after them withsome light wraps on his arm.Don Jose slipped his hand under the arm of the journalistof Sulaco.‘The Porvenir must have a long and confident articleupon Barrios and the irresistibleness of his army of Cayta!The moral effect should be kept up in the country. We mustcable encouraging extracts to Europe and the United Statesto maintain a favourable impression abroad.’Decoud muttered, ‘Oh, yes, we must comfort our friends,the speculators.’The long open gallery was in shadow, with its screen ofplants in vases along the balustrade, holding out motionlessblossoms, and all the glass doors of the reception-roomsthrown open. A jingle of spurs died out at the further end.Basilio, standing aside against the wall, said in a softtone to the passing ladies, ‘The Senor Administrador is justback from the mountain.’In the great sala, with its groups of ancient Spanish andmodern European furniture making as if different centresunder the high white spread of the ceiling, the silver andporcelain of the tea-service gleamed among a cluster ofdwarf chairs, like a bit of a lady’s boudoir, putting in a note