Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![street, which was the causeway between the City and the Indian town of Tlaltelolco; and for the greater safety of the Spaniards dwelling in the City there was a wide ditch, that this bridge crossed, between them and the Indian town. Long ago, Senor, Tlaltelolco became a part of the City; and the ditch, and the bridge over it, are gone. Now it happened that at the court of the Viceroy was a noble young Portuguese gentle¬ man, who had great riches and two titles, named Don Duarte de Sarraza; and the Viceroy, who was the Conde de Salvatierra, very much es¬ teemed him because he was of a loyal nature and of good heart. Therefore this noble young gentleman fell in love with Doha Margarita, and she with him; but her uncle, the Padre Don Juan, knowing that Don Duarte was a vicious young man—a gambler, and in other ways what he should not have been—forbade his niece to have anything to do with him. So things rested for a while on those terms, and Don Duarte did not like it at all. Well, it happened on a night, Senor, that Don Duarte was at the window of Doha Mar¬ garita, telling his love for her through the [12]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
