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"I simply can't bear it any longer, mother." It was Aileen who spoke, and Juana listened with a troubled air, for she was greatly troubled herself. The long absence of her two sons weighed heavily upon her heart.
"But what can we do, my Aileen?" said Juana. The silver streaks were showing in her hair, but she still kept the freshness of her emotions, the tenderness of her heart. And, for that reason she suffered with her daughter, whose lover had left her to pursue the gleam of gold, almost as much as she grieved for the loss of her two stalwart sons.