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.
94/228 page 58
![this virtuous young lady put upon her own beauty could lead only to a good end. Present¬ ly, when the bitter pain of her burning had passed a little, Doha Beatrice bade Don Martin come to her; and he, coming, found her clad in virgin white and wearing over her poor burned face a white veil. And then the test that Doha Beatrice had planned for her heart’s assuring was made. Little by little, Doha Beatrice raised her white veil slowly; and, little by little, Don Mar¬ tin saw the face of her: and the face of her was more shudderingly hideous—her two beautiful eyes perfectly alight and alive amid that dis¬ torted deathliness was what made the shudder of it—than anything that ever he had dreamed of in his very worst dream! Therefore, with a great joy and thankfulness, Don Martin im¬ mediately espoused Doha Beatrice: and thence¬ forward and always—most reasonably ceasing to love the outside beauty of her—gave her, as she wanted him to give her, the pure love of soul for soul. For myself, Senor, I think that the conduct of that young lady was unreasonable, and that Don Martin had just occasion to be annoyed. t ss ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
