she said. "He is always in trouble. He is full of
enthusiasms; he is as impossible as his favorite, Don
Quixote."

"And I thank God, Antonia, that I can yet feel with him. Woe
to the centuries without Quixotes! Nothing will remain to
them but--Sancho Panzas."


CHAPTER II.

ANTONIA AND ISABEL.

"He various changes of the world had known,
And some vicissitudes of human fate,
Still altering, never in a steady state
Good after ill, and after pain delight,
Alternate, like the scenes of day and night."

"Ladies whose bright eyes
Rain influence."

"But who the limits of that power shall trace,
Which a brave people into life can bring,
Or hide at will, for freedom combating
By just revenge inflamed?"


For many years there had never been any doubt in the mind of
Robert Worth as to the ultimate destiny of Texas, though he was