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It was a decidedly unpleasant sensation that so nearly overcame me when I made this remarkable discovery in the lordly _casa_ of the worthy alcalde.
Surprise and consternation about constituted the whole, for had I not often vowed never again to set eyes on that fair face, once madly loved, and here a perverse fate had actually taken me by the neck and forced me into her presence.