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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![out of the question; and at the same time prove to her heart’s satisfying that DonMartm’s love for her had nothing to do with the outside beauty of her and truly was the pure love of soul for soul. And Doha Beatrice, Senor, did do that very thing. Her father being gone abroad from his home, and all of the servants of the house being on one excuse or another sent out of it, she brought into her own chamber a brazier filled with burning coals; and this she set be¬ neath an image of the blessed Santa Lucia that she had hung upon the wall to give strength to her in case, in doing herself so cruel an injury, her own strength should fail. Santa Lucia, as you will remember, Senor, with her own hands plucked out her own wonderfully beautiful eyes and sent them on a platter to the young gentleman who had troubled her devotions by telling her that he could not live without them; and with them sent the message that, since she had given him the eyes that he could not live without, he please would let her and her devotions alone. Therefore it was clear that Santa Lucia was the saint best fitted to over¬ see the matter that Doha Beatrice had in hand. But in regard to her eyes Doha Beatrice did [56]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0094.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
