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distance she made out Pedro's silhouette,<br />
and Rosaura with him, and she<br />
was no longer so sure of her feelings.<br />
Rosaura, displaying an enormous pregnant<br />
belly, was walking slowly.<br />
Seeing Tita, she went and embraced her,<br />
crying inconsolably.<br />
Pedro approached her in his turn.<br />
When Pedro took her in his arms her body<br />
quivered like jelly.<br />
Tita blessed her mother for providing the<br />
occasion for her to see and<br />
embrace Pedro. Then she pulled away<br />
sharply. Pedro didn't deserve to<br />
have her love him so much. He had shown<br />
weakness by going away and<br />
leaving her1 she could not forgive him.<br />
John took Tita's hand on the way back to the<br />
ranch, and Tita in turn<br />
took his arm, to emphasize that there was<br />
something more than<br />
friendship between them. She wanted to<br />
cause Pedro the same pain she<br />
had always felt seeing him beside her sister.<br />
Pedro watched them through slits of eyes.<br />
He didn't care a bit for the<br />
familiar way John drew near Tita when she<br />
whispered something in his<br />
ear. What was going on?<br />
Tita belonged to him, and he wasn't going to<br />
let anyone take her<br />
away.<br />
Especially not now that Mama Elena, the<br />
major obstacle to their union,<br />
had disappeared.<br />
TO BE CONTINUED Next month's recipe.<br />
Champanngo recipe. CHAPTER EIGHT.<br />
August.<br />
Chamanon;o recipe. INGREDIENTS 1/4 kilo<br />
g'roun beef 1/4 kilo grouno<br />
pork 2OOaranu walnut6<br />
200 yranu almoner' 1 caoN citron 2 tomato 1<br />
tabpoon Bar 1/4 cup cream<br />
1/4 kilo quuo manchego 1/4 cup mole cumrn<br />
chicken dtock corn tortill'u<br />
oil PREPARATION: The onion is finely<br />
chopped and fried in a little oil<br />
with the meat. While it is frying, the ground<br />
cumin and a tablespoon<br />
of sugar are added.<br />
As usual, Tita was crying as she chopped the<br />
onion.<br />
The tears clouded her vision so completely<br />
that before she realized it<br />
she cut her finger with the knife. She gave<br />
an angry cry and went back<br />
to preparing the champandongo as if nothing<br />
had happened.<br />
Right now she didn't even have a second to<br />
take care of her wound.<br />
That evening John was coming to ask for her<br />
hand, and she had to<br />
prepare a good supper in only half an hour.<br />
Tita didn't like to have to hurry with her<br />
cooking.<br />
She always allowed enough time to cook<br />
food perfectly, trying to<br />
organize her activities in such a way that she<br />
had the peacefulness she<br />
needed in the kitchen to be able to prepare<br />
succulent dishes exactly as<br />
they should be prepared. Now she was so<br />
late that her movements were<br />
jerky and hasty, which led to that sort of<br />
accident.
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