Doña Victorina, the only lady seated in the European group, could say whether the Tabo was not lazy, disobedient, and capriciousDoña Victorina, who, nervous as ever, was hurling invectives against the cascos, bankas, rafts of coconuts, the Indians paddling about, and even the washerwomen and bathers, who fretted her with their mirth and chatter.

That morning Doña Victorina was more irritated than usual because the members of the group took very little notice of her, reason for which was not lacking; for just considerthere could be found three friars, convinced that the world would move backwards the very day they should take a single step to the right;

Now wasn't this enough to exhaust the patience of a female Joba sobriquet Doña Victorina always applied to herself when put out with any one!

Botheration, half speed!" protested Doña Victorina disdainfully.

This Doña Victorina was well known in the country for her caprices and extravagances.

"The trouble is in the lake" "The fact is there isn't a single decent lake in this country," interrupted Doña Victorina, highly indignant, and getting ready for a return to the assault upon the citadel.

"In this country there is so little thinking done" "But, Don Custodio," exclaimed Doña Victorina with smirks and grimaces, "if everybody takes to raising ducks the balot eggs will become abundant.

"In regard to the aunt, do you know that she has charged me to look for her husband?" "Doña Victorina?

But the fact is that her husband is actually hiddenin my uncle's house!" Both burst into a laugh at this, while Isagani continued: "That's why my uncle, being a conscientious man, won't go on the upper deck, fearful that Doña Victorina will ask him about Don Tiburcio.

Just imagine, when Doña Victorina learned that I was a steerage passenger she gazed at me with a disdain that" At that moment Simoun came down and, catching sight of the two young men, greeted Basilio in a patronizing tone: "Hello, Don Basilio, you're off for the vacation?

"All so that I won't have any reason for talking with Doña Victorina.

Then you have another legend, that of Doña Jeronima's cave, which Padre Florentino can relate to you.

The legend states that Doña Jeronima was so fat that she had to turn sidewise to get into it.

Doña Victorina thought of dwelling in such a cave and was about to say so, when Simoun took the floor instead.

exclaimed Doña Victorina.

" The thought of doña Bernarda, the personification of austere, uncompromising virtue, chased the mirth from every face in the company.

SEE Doña María de Zayas y Sotomayor.

SEE Doña María de Zayas y Sotomayor.

But this does not seem to irritate Don Sebastian much; but what does irritate him and makes him behave like a fiend is when they speak of Doña Visitacion.

You do not know Doña Visitacion?

He rages and screams and bites the days when he is ill, but if Doña Visita appears, he controls himself at once; he suffers in silence, moans like a child, and it is sufficient for her to say a soft word, or give him a caress for His Eminence to slobber with delight.

If they told him the choir intended to give a dance he would be less irritated than when he hears them wag their tongues about Doña Visita.

"And as to what Doña Visita is to the Cardinal," he added, "I have no doubt whatever.

Doña Isabel with her feminine fanaticism established the Inquisition, so science extinguished her lamp in the mosques and synagogues, and hid her books in Christian convents.

These were followed by the "Flower of the Alps" and "Desdemona" in 1896; "Doña Mona," palpitating with life, and "Faustalla of Pistoia," with short golden hair and a majestic poise of the head, in 1897; "Salome" and "Angelica," two widely differing pictures in character and color, in 1898; "Mina of Fiesole," and the portrait of a golden-haired beauty in a costume of black and gold, in 1899; the portrait of Mlle.